WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia Thomas O. Melia will travel to Ukraine January 25-29, 2016. He will be joined by Department of State Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia Alina L. Romanowski.

Their trip will include meetings with Ukrainian officials, civil society leaders, and the private sector to discuss how U.S. assistance is responding to Ukraine’s development, economic, and humanitarian challenges and will assess further assistance needs going forward.  

This will be Assistant Administrator Melia’s first visit to Ukraine in his new capacity. During the trip, he and Coordinator Romanowski will visit the eastern Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv, Slovyansk, and Kramatorsk to meet with local leaders and discuss current U.S. programs in the region.

In Kyiv, they will hold meetings with public officials to identify how to help Ukraine continue to strengthen its democracy and combat corruption, improve governance, develop civil society, bolster the economy and energy security, and provide humanitarian support to those affected by the conflict in the eastern regions.