this is also on the fronts and here is a very interesting thing about aviation about the prospects of ukraine's cooperation with the united states of america literally in a minute the online e forum of the kyiv security forum will start online broadcast online discussion e this security forum e-e at least there will be good evening we are from ukraine a big broadcast vasyl winter my real name is winter two hours of air time and my colleagues with you until 21:00 two hours of your time we will talk about the most important two

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yesterday the european council made a historic decision to open the prospect of eu membership to ukraine and gave candidate status for our country is a monumental step forward, as the desire to become a member of the european union has been a vital priority for our country for many years country is an existential response to russia's attempt to eliminate ukraine and seize our territory to defeat the aggressor and liberate our lands to join the eu and nato to restore and build a prosperous and strong ukraine these are our goals today we will talk about the restoration of ukraine and international plans to help us in this international conference

on the restoration of ukraine, which will take place in lugano on july 4 and 5, will be a certain test of these intentions. in my opinion, we will see whether there is a real reliable international plan for this or whether it is ready the international community to provide ukraine with a long-term and in conditions of war and this is a war of attrition that russia is waging against the nation, actually against this world, how to create conditions for private foreign investments in ukraine, regardless of the war, what is necessary, how to protect our democratic values ​​and principles during war can we all become stronger in these trials i am glad that we have the opportunity to discuss these issues with

today's distinguished guests first of all i present to you damon wilson president and chief executive director of the us national endowment for democracy ambassador from stewart jones president of regional policy and corporate relations of american backtail corporation former assistant us assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs and former united states ambassador to iraq and jordan thank you very much for joining our discussion very nice to see among us ambassador etsen, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the french republic in ukraine thank you mr. ambassador nataliya yaresko former the minister of finance of ukraine and the director of the financial management council of puerto rico and mr. arseniy

yatsenyuk, the former prime minister of ukraine and the head of the kyiv security agency, i want to start the forum with questions for ms. nataliya yaresko, natalya, please tell us what we have today and what what should we do, what should we focus on preparing for the reconstruction of ukraine, how do you see this perspective, is there any common and international vision of how to do it, how to restore ukraine, thank you very much danyla thank you very much to the kyiv safe forum for holding this important discussion. i think there are three main issues that need to be discussed when we talk about the recovery and reconstruction of ukraine. the first is the vision of ukraine for its recovery, what ukraine sees for itself as a plan and this plan should inspire, because the second issue is how

to raise funds . in order to ensure this reconstruction, what should be the sources and it is also necessary to think about what measures of faith should be carried out in order for these finances to come what is the plan that ukraine sees for itself and in the plan let's say new technologies in order not to rebuild what was once, because ukraine is getting rid of the soviet past, when houses were built without thinking about the person, it is necessary to think about how to do it on a new technological basis, on ecological standards, on the basis of energy economy, and so on , and also in accordance with european standards , because now having candidate status and should be used as a platform for full integration into the

european union and use the legislation of the european union and its construction standards and etc. therefore, ukraine, through its civil society and the government, should develop this vision , this plan. i know that the government is working on this. many working groups have already been created, and i think that some of these plans will be presented in lugano. this is what dorobok and businesses and the government and civil society will do, and this should inspire not only donors but also the people of ukraine, first of all, so that people understand that what will be built will be built for them in terms of sources of funding, then here there will be different categories. i will focus on the first , the most important, first of all, it is the confiscation of

russian assets. i know that in each and every jurisdiction where russian assets were frozen, specific laws must be adopted, a procedure developed, and this will also be accompanied by court cases, of course but no matter what, the assets of russia should be one of the main sources that should be used in the country for the recovery of this country. of course, this will all take time, but this process must already be started in the legislative plan as well, and then it is also necessary to think about other sources of financing, international financial institutions, european reconstruction and development, the big twenty, i am

specifically not talking about the big seven, the big twenty, the international monetary fund, the world bank, reconstruction and development, and of course for donors, for the international community, very it is important for trust to have an agreed upon procurement system that is transparent transparent honest fair and well managed either by a separate department or by a third party that there would be people who would specifically deal with issues of monitoring and reporting on the use of these funds. i think that this is something that needs to be thought about even now. as for the private sector, there are many measures to build trust, first of all

, it is about political risk insurance and access to courts and guarantees of fair trials . therefore, the judicial reform in ukraine should continue, perhaps it should be done on the basis of legislation similar to the legislation of great britain in order to ensure the rule of law for the time being in this there is no specific plan agreed upon, and i think that the meeting in lugano and at the level of the big seven will be taken steps to achieve this goal, so far we have not achieved it, but for now it

is also very important to have security the proper armament of ukraine is a rather comprehensive such a-a approach, in my opinion it is quite a-a correct. of course, all this looks like a huge job awaits ukraine and the international community, so we need a fairly strong leadership for this, so that all this work is carried out. and more one question b i am available to you as what do you think, or are there any other tools that could be used to help ukraine, or perhaps, let's say, reduce ukraine's international debt obligations or cancel foreign debt, how can we

approach this i spoke separately about macro financial stability, since this is a separate issue in the idea of ​​an international monetary fund, the fund here is of course also about the cash gap, and of course, in addition to reconstruction, it will be necessary to provide macroeconomic financial support, and of course this may require a certain restructuring of the debt. i do not believe in a change in the debt. but i think that today ukraine can work until a certain moratorium or suspension of foreign debt payments and if we ask donors to help us cope with the budget deficit, of course, such issues as suspending the

moratorium for a certain time, not canceling it, will be a very helpful step in this regard, as it happened in 2014-2015 in our government under prime minister mr. yatsenyuk, and this must be agreed with the international with the currency background, it will give an opportunity to take a breather, so to speak, give us fresh air, and then we will move on. thank you very much for your answers , mrs. natalya. what has the european union already done, it

mobilized about 4 whole one-tenths of a billion euros to support the overall economic , social and financial stability of ukraine, military aid amounts to 1.5 billion euros was it was announced that in addition to additional macro-financial assistance in the amount of about 9 billion euros, other bilateral and multilateral sources of financial support from international partners are provided, including the e-e group of families ms. yaresko spoke now about the group of 20, so the situation requires even more, mr. ambassador, in your opinion how in the european union, where france plays a leading role, sees the recovery plan. thank you very much, danylo . good evening

to all. unlike natalya, i am directly in ukraine in the middle of the war, and of course we understand that the reconstruction of ukraine will be the next step, and at the moment it has been four months. we are busy providing aid to ukraine . mobilized very quickly, not only practically, but also at the conceptual and intellectual level, because the european union in a very short time changed its

thinking about how to provide financial support, because traditionally the european union does not provide military support. and this time in a few days , such a decision was made. as you said, we in the european union provided military support , meaning equipment and all means of protection for the military very quickly, and i have been working in the affairs of the european union for 20 years, and i know how it is functioning, therefore it is absolutely clear to me that i could not even imagine that the european union would be able to mobilize so quickly one and a half billion

in aid for military needs and it happened why it happened because as you are absolutely right pointed out that ukraine was subjected to an unjustified invasion by russia, and this when it comes to the european union, but also in france from the very first day, from february 24, we were able to provide a lot of help in various fields and military, of course. and you know that we have very good artillery systems and their this was also provided by the caesar system, in particular, which is very effective, and also provided material aid and humanitarian aid from the very beginning, financial aid, diplomatic aid, we work here

in two ways, first, france as a member of the european when you talked about such assistance, the european union is the member states of the member states, because the european union does not exist separately from the member states, so when it comes to the european union, 116% is our share of contributions to the financing of the european union . of the union is just covered by france and, in addition, on a bilateral basis. we also provide financial assistance to ukraine in the amount of 300 million euros of direct direct assistance, so we are talking about different levels and different directions of such support and the fact that we stand

we firmly support it together with ukraine, it helps ukraine to defend itself and there is one more point that i would like to dwell on, which is what happened yesterday, an absolutely incredible event, which no one could have expected a few months ago, in four months , as a european union of 27 states, we were able to members to support a single decision on granting this status to ukraine and ukraine absolutely deserves such support and such sympathy from the european union, but simply if you think about it, this step is extremely incredible and extremely significant here as well

i must also mention my country and my president, because during the french presidency we came to kyiv, you know, about a week ago, despite all the difficulties of the political situation of our internal political situation, the president found time with three colleagues, the chancellor of germany, scholz, the prime minister of italy, dear and the prime minister of romania to come to ukraine to hold a detailed discussion with president zelenskyi and give a very important impetus to the approval of the historic decision to grant ukraine the status of a candidate for eu membership

in my memory, this is an unprecedented case when the european union makes such an extremely important decision so quickly answering your specific question because i am here and so much is happening around me in kyiv and we do not give so much various help that i cannot even say what it is our clear vision of what needs to be done strategically in terms of reconstruction. i feel that we will do it, we will be able. we have the functional capabilities to do it together with the ukrainian people to serve this country provide financial help and i am sure that we will

succeed in this part. i don't know exactly what the steps will be. but i am sure that when it comes to that, the steps will also be planned and we will work side by side with our ukrainian friends. thank you very much, sir, you said that yesterday was an extremely joyful day for ukraine, it is true, but i have to tell you that it is a day of both our joy and our pain, because so many ukrainians sacrificed their lives for this goal, for our desire , our will to be a state, to be part of europe and we understand that this decision is very important for us, for our e-e military, that we are protected

by naftitsia, of course, i would like to thank you and more importantly , the people of france for this support. personally, it is obvious that without the leadership of france, granting ukraine the status of a candidate would have been it would be impossible because there were many skeptics and skeptics said not to hope for it much. you do not show much unjustified optimism, but from your point of view, in this way, you are already a candidate status, which will help to welcome the union to this world,

but this is a serious first code in the sense judicial reforms, of course, and it is very important to do it properly, and ukraine, which eventually joins the european union, will be different, it will be completely new, and on the ukrainian side, we need to think about the reforms, they should be implemented in accordance with the urgent perspective, and i am sure that everything will work out. we watched how other countries joined the european union and poland and slovakia

and the czech republic and so on. and if they try, they will succeed. if we compare ukraine with poland, we will see that poland has been a member of the european union for the fourth year, and ukraine can expect the same will become a member of the european union if it carries out the necessary reforms and it will, of course, depend on the country, but this path will be long and sometimes painful. maybe there will be some disappointments, and not everything will happen as quickly as you want, but in the end ukraine will become a full member of the family of member countries of the european union, and you are right that today we live in times of joy, we are all in this

connection, but also in times of pain due to losses in the war, but we know that ukraine shares european values, it is a european country and it unceasingly supports what the 27 current member states of the european union have adopted, i am full of hope, thank you, thank you very much, mr. ambassador and of course, now moldova has also received the same status as a candidate country for membership in the european union, now i would like to give the floor to our wonderful friend damon wilson, it is a great honor for us thank you very much for joining us. the topic we discussed with you

was always difficult. but it is very important for us and for the united states and for the whole world. samantha power is a great friend of ukraine and kyiv security of the forum recently said that the ukrainian government loses 5 to 6 billion us dollars every month as a result of the russian war, these numbers are frightening and we understand that in the long term the current amount of aid will not be enough in your opinion damon, in what way should the united states be involved in efforts to support ukraine and why it is so important not only for ukraine but also for the usa and the world community. thank you very much for inviting me. i am very pleased to be with you all. this is a critical moment for your country and it is historic.

moment for europe and for our european colleagues, and that's why i agree with the ambassador, the patient, the ether depancenom, that this is an extremely important moment, and we are sure that after this, ukraine will only become more powerful, strong, and this is what is being said here, it is also about the export of agricultural products, of course, and about cooperation and about the economy, but we must remember that we all collectively and the united states and other partners and allies of ukraine extremely strongly support ukraine is turning before our eyes in many aspects of the day of what is

democracy and how it can stand against tyranny and autocracy, and ukrainians actually sacrifice their lives, their blood, their land and their people , and it is absolutely in our interests to support the people of ukraine and the congress and the administration and the military e realize that this support is important but e- as for economic growth, reconstruction, reconstruction, it is really necessary not to rebuild the soviet past, but to take advantage of this opportunity and move forward , including in democracy, we are in the fund support for democracy, we understand that after this

conflict, ukraine will become a more powerful democracy than it was until now, and people see this terrible injustice, what another country does, but being a democracy, a free country, it believes in its future, and it has the quality of its democracy, and this actually ensures its national security, that is why it enjoys the help and support of the whole world, including the united states. that is why we have always supported civil society in ukraine, and we are thinking about how to help for ukrainians, ordinary ukrainians and civil society to become stronger so that a stronger and more democratic ukraine could emerge