Thomas Melia: Ukraine’s government ‘has failed to consistently respect the rights of freedom of speech and press’
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Melia of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the situation in the Ukraine, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 15, 2014. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB
Editor's Note: The following is a transcript of Deputy Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Thomas O. Melia's testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Jan. 15 in Washington, D.C., regarding Ukraine's ongoing political crisis.
