The Finance Minister will present the US on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
The US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will lead the U.S. delegation in Poland at events on the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and the next day they will visit Kiev to discuss additional assistance to Ukraine, informed the American Finance Ministry on Wednesday.
" On Tuesday, January 27, Secretary Lew will lead the presidential delegation to the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp) Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland Auschwitz, according to the report of the Ministry of Finance. It is expected that the Russian Federation on the events at Auschwitz, which organizers expect More than twenty delegations from all over the world, will represent the head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov.
upon completion of the visit to Poland, he " will visit Kiev on 28 January, where he will meet with senior administration officials to discuss the additional assistance of the United States, which was announced last week ".
The U.S. is the leading donor of Ukraine, Both in the IMF and the world Bank, and bilateral channels. The U.S. has already provided in 2014 guarantees of Ukraine's debt to $ 1 billion and military assistance to more than 300 million dollars. In the current fiscal year, the U.S. will provide Ukraine warranty for another $ 1 billion, the possibility of doubling the guarantee amount.
Kiev will be the final stage of the European tour of the U.S. Treasury, which starts on 22 January at the world economic forum in Davos, Switzerland. Then, according to the plan, on January 25, he will go to Paris, where he expected to meet with his French counterpart. On the first day of the week the head of the U.S. Treasury is expected in Brussels, where he held his dialogues with representatives of the European Commission.
Auschwitz is a small town in southern Poland, numbering about 50 thousand inhabitants. At the end of April 1940 on the orders of reichsf?hrer-SS Heinrich Himmler on the outskirts of Auschwitz was established complex of the German concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau. Above the entrance to the camp hung the slogan Arbeit macht frei ( "Work makes you free" ).
in 1940-1945 years in concentration camps, has died, according to various estimates, from 1, 5 to 4 million people. The exact number of dead and could not install, As most documents were killed, and the Germans did not maintain records of the victims sent to the gas chambers immediately upon arrival. As shown by the documents of the Nuremberg Tribunal, lost his life 2, 8 million people, 90% of whom were Jews. Read more in
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