Pompeo: the United States has been Very Worried about Ukrainian Corruption

Secretary Pompeo stated this at a joint press conference in Leipzig with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. The United States has been very worried about Ukrainian corruption and will  work again in the year ahead, trying to make sure that President Zelensky has the opportunity to root out corruption inside of his own country, said Mike Pompeo at a joint press conference in Leipzig with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. Mike Pompeo is on his visit to Germany to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Leipzig, the head of the Department of State held talks with his German counterpart Heiko Maas. Significant attention, according to Pompeo, during the meeting the parties spent a fair amount of time talking about Syria. The United States will continue to monitor the ceasefire and hold human rights violators there accountable.  We are investigating allegations of war crimes, and we will continue to deliver on our humanitarian mission there. “We’ll keep urging Russia and Turkey and the regime and its allies not to take steps that would further destabilize that already difficult region that has caused the mass displacement and refugee flows that we have already seen”, said Pompeo. The head of the Department of State said that Germany has been an important and valuable multilateral partner and has been a great partner in supporting our efforts to attempt to denuclearize North Korea, to maintain pressure on Russia to meet its commitments to implement the Minsk agreements. When asked about the unfavorable situation between Washington and Kyiv due to the actions of the Trump administration, Pompeo said that was not any deterioration in U.S.-Ukrainian relations. According to Mike Pompeo, “the U.S.A. provided $250 million worth of security assistance, defense assistance, and $140 million or so of additional security assistance, just like happened in Fiscal Year ’18 and Fiscal Year ’17.  And the United States efforts to continue to fight corruption continued throughout this year.  So that’s what happened in Washington with respect to Ukraine this year”, said Secretary Pompeo. Pompeo also said that the United States has been very worried about Ukrainian corruption. “It’s been something that’s been at the center of the State Department’s mission set, and something that we worked last year and we will work again in the year ahead, trying to make sure that President Zelensky has the opportunity to root out corruption inside of his own country”, added Pompeo. golos ameriki