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Read Marie Yovanovitch's prepared deposition statement
https://games-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/fd70dea5-724b-4c5a-9de8-da11d7d6e9f8/note/33f88507-cb6c-48d2-b673-139f86a5d98a.pdf#page=1Opening Statement of Marie L. Yovanovitch to the
House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Committee on
Oversight and Reform
October 11, 2019
Thank you for the opportunity to start with this statement
today.
For the last 33 years, it has been my great honor to serve the
American people as a Foreign Service Officer, over six
Administrations—four Republican, and two Democratic. I have
served in seven different countries, five of them hardship posts,
and was appointed to serve as an ambassador three times—twice
by a Republican President, and once by a Democrat. Throughout
my career, I have stayed true to the oath that Foreign Service
Officers take and observe every day: “that I will support and
defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic;” and “that I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same.” Like all foreign service officers with
whom I have been privileged to serve, I have understood that oath
as a commitment to serve on a strictly nonpartisan basis, to
advance the foreign policy determined by the incumbent
President, and to work at all times to strengthen our national
security and promote our national interests.
My Background
I come by these beliefs honestly and through personal
experience. My parents fled Communist and Nazi regimes.
Having seen, first hand, the war, poverty and displacement
common to totalitarian regimes, they valued the freedom and
democracy the U.S. represents. And they raised me to cherish
these values as well. Their sacrifices allowed me to attend
Princeton University, where I focused my studies on the Soviet
Union. Given my upbringing, it has been the honor of a lifetime
to help to foster those principles as a career Foreign Service
Officer.
From August 2016 until May 2019, I served as the U.S.
Ambassador to Ukraine. Our policy, fully embraced by
Democrats and Republicans alike, was to help Ukraine become a
stable and independent democratic state, with a market economy
integrated into Europe.
Recent Ukrainian History
Ukraine is a sovereign country, whose borders are inviolate
and whose people have the right to determine their own destiny.
These are the bedrock principles of our policy. Because of
Ukraine’s geostrategic position bordering Russia on its east, the
warm waters of the oil-rich Black Sea to its south, and four NATO
allies to its west, it is critical to the security of the United States
that Ukraine remain free and democratic and that it continue to
resist Russian expansionism....
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House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Committee on
Oversight and Reform
October 11, 2019
Thank you for the opportunity to start with this statement
today.
For the last 33 years, it has been my great honor to serve the
American people as a Foreign Service Officer, over six
Administrations—four Republican, and two Democratic. I have
served in seven different countries, five of them hardship posts,
and was appointed to serve as an ambassador three times—twice
by a Republican President, and once by a Democrat. Throughout
my career, I have stayed true to the oath that Foreign Service
Officers take and observe every day: “that I will support and
defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic;” and “that I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same.” Like all foreign service officers with
whom I have been privileged to serve, I have understood that oath
as a commitment to serve on a strictly nonpartisan basis, to
advance the foreign policy determined by the incumbent
President, and to work at all times to strengthen our national
security and promote our national interests.
My Background
I come by these beliefs honestly and through personal
experience. My parents fled Communist and Nazi regimes.
Having seen, first hand, the war, poverty and displacement
common to totalitarian regimes, they valued the freedom and
democracy the U.S. represents. And they raised me to cherish
these values as well. Their sacrifices allowed me to attend
Princeton University, where I focused my studies on the Soviet
Union. Given my upbringing, it has been the honor of a lifetime
to help to foster those principles as a career Foreign Service
Officer.
From August 2016 until May 2019, I served as the U.S.
Ambassador to Ukraine. Our policy, fully embraced by
Democrats and Republicans alike, was to help Ukraine become a
stable and independent democratic state, with a market economy
integrated into Europe.
Recent Ukrainian History
Ukraine is a sovereign country, whose borders are inviolate
and whose people have the right to determine their own destiny.
These are the bedrock principles of our policy. Because of
Ukraine’s geostrategic position bordering Russia on its east, the
warm waters of the oil-rich Black Sea to its south, and four NATO
allies to its west, it is critical to the security of the United States
that Ukraine remain free and democratic and that it continue to
resist Russian expansionism....
more
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she sounds like the very definition of am American patriot
There has been a war going on between IQ45 and his mis-administration since the first day he took control. The number of career professionals that have been "relieved of duty," retired, or voluntarily left service is astounding - and a serious concern for the future of the State Department.
What IQ45 has done to the State Department is no less critical than what he has done to the courts, the EPA, the...........
oh, F**K - what he HAS DONE TO OUR COUNTRY!!!!!!!
