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The U.S. Department of State suggested that William Taylor, who worked as an ambassador in Kyiv in 2006–2009, become charge d’affairs to Ukraine, the ZN.UA edition reported referring to sources in Washington.
According to the ezine, the temporary envoy will tentatively head the U.S. Embassy for at least a year, or even until the presidential elections in the United States in 2020.
“ZN.UA notes that Taylor is familiar with the situation in Ukraine, he constantly keeps abreast of the defense sphere, knows the situation in Donbas and understands economic issues.
As reported, in early May it became known that U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch finishes her work on May 20.
The team of President-elect of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky intends to conduct a “state audit” in the first 100 days in order to understand the state’s position, an ideologist of the Zelensky team, Ruslan Stefanchuk, notes.
“In order to perform any transformations, we need to know the human resource, financial resource and time resource. It is recorded in our program, and we will deal with it in the first 100 days: this is the announcement of the state audit. We need to understand the situation in the state today,” he said on the 112.Ukraine TV channel on Friday evening.
According to the ideologist of the team, the Ukrainian institutions, which are charged with the relevant duties, and international structures will be involved in such an audit. “It is clear that we can attract international institutions not in all areas, because it is connected with state secrets, with other things,” he said.
Stefanchuk stressed that it is important to understand the state of Ukraine’s financial obligations, the state of the infrastructure, and the state of the country’s international obligations.
“We need to know how many people there are in Ukraine today, since the number of deputies in the Verkhovna Rada depends on it. There are European norms, and they are far from being appropriate. We need to understand what social programs should be implemented. It’s not normal when today we do not know the amount of people in the country and their legal statuses,” he explained.
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is completing her diplomatic term of office in Kyiv, the American Embassy has reported.
“As Ambassador Yovanovitch concludes her diplomatic assignment in Kyiv, look back on her three years of work in Ukraine to advance,” the U.S. Embassy to Ukraine said on Facebook on Saturday.
The diplomatic mission also announced a video on the work of Yovanovitch as ambassador to Ukraine.
