The Central & East European Coalition (CEEC) would like to thank Congressional leaders and President Trump for signing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law. We would like to remind Congress of the importance of pursuing a regional strategy to combat hybrid warfare tactics which include border incursions, cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, energy weaponization, and corruption.

This letter to the White House asserts the importance in the U.S. support to ensure the 20,000+ Ukrainian children abducted to Russia and Russian held territories. It emphasizes the need to recognition their return back to their respected families and that children should never be used as leverage for negotiations to end the war.

The CEEC released a statement on August 22 thanking President Trump engaging with President Zelensky and European leaders to commence discussions for the end of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukriane and security guarantees for Ukraine. The statement also lists policy recommendations on what an ideal path forward to achieve peace through strengthen.

The Central and East European Coalition (CEEC) welcomes the U.S. House of Representatives’ bipartisan passage of the MEGOBARI Act (Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence) with a decisive 349–42 vote on May 5th. This legislation affirms the United States’ steadfast support for the Georgian people’s democratic aspirations and pursuit of Euro-Atlantic integration.

One hope to which grieving families could cling was a U.S.-based program at the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) that tracked those children. It had collected a tremendous amount of critical data on these children’s whereabouts. The move to freeze funding led to fears that such data and tracking could be discontinued, lost, deleted, or the safety of these kidnapped children jeopardized. 

The CEEC vehemently opposes the Trump administration’s move to dismantle the Voice of America (VOA) and its sister organizations, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), as well as Radio Free Asia (RFA) and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB).

On behalf of the members of the Central and East European Coalition (CEEC), representing over 20 million Americans, we write in response to your recent remarks in Munich concerning Ukraine.

It is time to assert that both the Holodomor and the current war of Russian aggression against Ukraine are genocides.

The CEEC strongly condemns the Kremlin-inspired bill “On the Transparency of Foreign Influence”, passed in the Georgian parliament, as it suppresses civic freedoms and damages Georgia’s strategic partnership with the U.S. and its Euro-Atlantic aspirations

As the leader of the free world, acting in concert with our European partners, America cannot let our allies stand alone at this pivotal moment.

In July, RFE/RL reported that Russian Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova has said that more than 700,000 Ukrainian children have been taken from Ukraine to Russia since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Some were forcibly deported in family units, but many were kidnapped from living parents or after their parents had been killed by invading Russian forces.

Provide accountability and send seized russian assets to Ukraine.

CEEC statement urging US to provide ATACMS to Ukraine.

The US must push to end Putin’s forever war.

The CEEC released a statement on August 22 thanking President Trump engaging with President Zelensky and European leaders to commence discussions for the end of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukriane and security guarantees for Ukraine. The statement also lists policy recommendations on what an ideal path forward to achieve peace through strengthen.

CEEC in action for CEEC Advocacy Day, 2023.

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