The US Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to be US ambassador to the United Nations by a decisive 96-to-4 vote on January 24, Radio Liberty reported.
A group of bipartisan senators is preparing a bill that would offer sanctions against Russia, lawmakers confirmed as the Senate convened a new session of Congress on Tuesday. Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that he was working on the bill with a "broad group" of bipartisan senators, CNN reported.
The US Senate has approved the country’s defence budget for 2017, which among other things provides for allocation of 350 million dollars in assistance to Ukraine in defence and security field.
The Senate of the U.S. state of California adopted the resolution on the occasion of celebration of Ukraine's Independence Day on August 24, 2016 in the presence of Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Valeriy Chaly. This is reported by the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States.