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Editor's Note: U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and members of a congressional delegation held a press availability on Aug. 5 in Kyiv on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, where they placed flowers on a memorial for the Heavenly Hundred who killed in the EuroMaidan Revolution that prompted President Viktor Yanukovych to flee on Feb. 22, 2014. Focused on national, economic, and energy security, the delegation met with President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, secretary of the National Security Defense Council Oleksandr Valentynovych, members of the Verkhovna Rada, Mayor Vitaly Klitschko, civil society nongovernmental organizations and business leaders. Below is a transcript of the press availability:

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