Action Ukraine Coalition Working Lunch

Thursday, April 15, 2004; 12 Noon to 1:30 p.m.

The ACTION UKRAINE COALITION

UKRAINIAN AMERICAN COORDINATING COUNCIL (UACC)
UKRAINIAN FEDERATION OF AMERICA (UFA)
U.S.-UKRAINE FOUNDATION (USUF)

Invites You to Attend an Action Ukraine Coalition Working Lunch with AMBASSADOR STEVEN PIFER Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (1998-2000) U.S. Department of State

Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, US Department of State, Steven Pifer will speak on the topic "US-Ukrainian Relations." His presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.

A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP, yes or no, by Wednesday noon, April 14, 2004 to Morgan Williams, morganw@patriot.net.

MEETING LOCATION:
CNFA Conference Room
Office of The Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs (CNFA)
1111 19th Street, N.W., Suite 900, Washington, D.C.
[between L & M on 19th St., East Side]

E. Morgan Williams, Coordinator
ACTION UKRAINE COALITION (AUC)
Publisher and Editor
"THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT" 2004
Washington, D. C.,
202 437 4707
morganw@patriot.net

STEVEN PIFER
Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs
U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.

Steven Pifer, a career senior Foreign Service Officer (class of Minister-Counselor), is a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. He served from January 1998 to October 2000 as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine.

Ambassador Pifer, of Sebastopol, California, entered the Foreign Service in January 1978. In addition to his assignment to Ukraine, he has served at the American Embassies in Warsaw, Moscow and London. His Washington assignments have included the Office of European Political and Security Affairs, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Office of Soviet Union Affairs, and the Office of the Coordinator for the New Independent States.

From December 1994 until August 1997, he was detailed to the National Security Council, where he spent the last year as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. From October 2000 to June 2001, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

Ambassador Pifer is a 1976 graduate of Stanford University with a B.A. in Economics. He holds several Superior and Meritorious Honor awards from the State Department. He and his wife have a daughter.

ACTION UKRAINE COALITION (AUC) MEMBERS

UKRAINIAN AMERICAN COORDINATING COUNCIL, (UACC), Ihor Gawdiak, President, Washington, D.C., New York, NY

UKRAINIAN FEDERATION OF AMERICA (UFA)
Dr. Zenia Chernyk, Chairperson, Vera M. Andryczyk, President, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

U.S.-UKRAINE FOUNDATION (USUF)
Nadia Komarnyckyj McConnell, President; John A. Kun, VP/COO; Markian Bilynskyj, VP, Dir. of Field Operations; Kyiv, Ukraine and Washington, D.C., website: http://www.usukraine.org .