Central and East European Coalition meets with White House officials to discuss U.S. policies in the region

Archived Articles | 31 Aug 2009 | JBANCEWR

Washington, DC (JBANC) --- Following recent important foreign policy trips by President Obama to Moscow and Vice President Biden to Ukraine and Georgia, the Central and East European Coalition (CEEC), an assembly of 18 ethnic organizations representing the communities of Central and East European descent, had an opportunity to meet with the principal architects for the Obama Administration’s foreign policy agenda.

In an hour-long discussion at the National Security Council on Wednesday, August 26th, the CEEC met with Antony J. Blinken, Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President, and Michael A. McFaul, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia and Eurasia at the National Security Council. Also participating in the meeting was Leslie Hayden, Director for Russia at the NSC.

The purpose of the meeting was to be de-briefed on the both the Moscow and Ukraine and Georgia trips, as well as to discuss pertinent foreign policy issues regarding the region. The CEEC issues broached at the meeting included the missile defense shield; the strategic partnerships and commissions established with Ukraine and Georgia; energy and cyber security; the defense of human rights and liberties in the region, and the Armenia and Turkey rapprochement.

Members of the CEEC also had an opportunity to meet with representatives of the Office of Public Engagement, who will be responsible for interacting with the various ethnic communities.

Participants from the CEEC included Marju Rink-Abel, President of the Estonian American National Council, and Karl Altau, Managing Director of the Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc. The American Latvian Association and the Lithuanian American Council are also CEEC member organizations. The CEEC was founded in 1994.

JBANC represents the Estonian American National Council, Inc., the American Latvian Association, Inc., and the Lithuanian American Council, Inc.

Archived Articles

The reverberations of Soviet totalitarianism in Finland: Sympathies and contradictions (II) (1)
Translated from Imbi Paju’s article in “Maailma Vaade” (View of the World).

This year 70 years have passed since the signing of the ...

How to Liberate an Economy
Entrepreneurs understand the importance of freedom in the workplace

Guy Sorman, TCS Daily

Brian Carney and Isaac Getz's Freedom, Inc. is a ...

Lessons from Estonia: Protecting the West from a computer attack
Väino Reinart, National Post, October 22, 2009

The cyber attacks carried out against Estonia in the spring of 2007 served as a wake-up call about ...

Opening statement by Mark Carney Governor of the Bank of Canada Press conference following the release of the Monetary Policy Report 22 October 2009
Good morning. Paul and I are pleased to be here with you today to discuss the October Monetary Policy Report, which we published this morning.

...

Welcome home
It is high time to abolish the concept of ethnic minorities
Europe.view column, Oct 22nd 2009, from Economist.com

Should the Polish ethnic ...

Moscow Patriarchate’s efforts to subordinate ‘alternative Orthodox’ undercut Russia’s future, Regelson says (2)
VIENNA, October 22 – The Moscow Patriarchate’s drive to subordinate all independent Orthodox bishops and believers to its own power vertical, an ...