US Senate may not vote for additional aid to Ukraine on Wednesday - Ambassador Markarova
Kyiv • UNN
The U.S. Senate may not pass a bill on additional assistance to Ukraine due to technical problems unrelated to Ukraine, Ambassador Markarova says. The disagreement concerns the bill's provisions on the southern border of the United States.
There is a fairly high chance that the US Senate will not support the bill on December 6, the bill on additional aid to Ukraine will not be supported in the US Senate on Wednesday, December 6. This was stated by during the United News telethon, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Oksana Markarova, reports UNN.
There is a fairly high chance that tomorrow it (the bill - ed.) will not be supported tomorrow. But this is a technical failure to support it and it does not concern Ukraine
This refers to the issue of the southern borders of the United States, which was included to the bill on financial support for Ukraine and which causes disagreements among among US lawmakers.
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We continue to work in Congress today and tomorrow and and tomorrow we will continue to work in the Congress and make our position very clear - we are very grateful that the majority has a clear understanding of how urgently this assistance is needed right now and we are doing everything we can to convince our friends that we need this aid to be passed before our Christmas together on December 25,"
To recap
On Tuesday, December 5, it became known that the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and the head of the Presidential Administration Andriy Yermak arrived on a visit to the United States.