Part of Oral Answers to Questions — International Development – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 24 June 2009.
Given the strategic significance of Ukraine as a political buffer zone between the EU and Russia, does the Minister not think that it was perhaps an error of judgment to close the DFID programme in Ukraine last year? It would be an utter tragedy if Ukraine's democracy should fail, so should we not at the very least be running significant capacity-building programmes to support it?