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ULRMC/ECOMM/Altarum Host American Ambassador Carlos Pascual in Crimea, Ukraine

ULRMC/ECOMM and Altarum hosted American Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual for discussions and dinner at the Fifth International Conference on the Use of Geoinformation Technologies for Territorial Development Management, held in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine.

ULRMC and Altarum sponsored the conference and provided a number of presentations, including "Role of Remote Sensing and GIS for Impact Modeling and Risk Assessment of Vector Borne Diseases," a keynote address delivered by Altarum's Dr. Robert A. Shuchman on the opening day of the conference.

Pictured in photo (left to right) are Turgut Unal, Sales Area Channel Manager, Asia & Africa, Space Imaging Eurasia; Colonel Ivan Postrybilo, Chief of Crimean Topographic Center, Ministry of Defense of Ukraine; Alexey Nechaev, Mayor, City of Alushta; Robert Edson, Deputy Director, Energy, Environment and Transportation, Altarum (Conference Sponsor); Major-General Vyacheslav Zhigulin, Chief of Topographic Department, Ministry of Defense of Ukraine; Valery Lashevsky, Director, Crimean Institute of Hydromelioration; Colonel Gennady Baramniya, Chief, Center for Relaxation and Rehabilitation 'Crimea', Ministry of Defense of Ukraine; Mykola Kobets, Specialist, Ukrainian Land and Resource Management Center; The Honorable Carlos Pascual, American Ambassador to Ukraine; Mykola Movchan, Chief of Ecological Department, City of Kyiv; Evgeniy Bubnov, Chairman, Commission for Science and Education, Crimean Parliament; Rene BeBeau, American Embassy Kyiv; Sergey Efimov, Former Chairman, Crimean Committee for Science and Technology (Conference Organizer); Evgeniy Seredynin, President, ECOMM Co. (Founding Conference Organizer); Konstantin Volokh, National Space Agency of Ukraine; Eric Luhmann, Program Manager, Ukrainian Land and Resource Management Center and Altarum (Conference Sponsor); and Vladimir Saryan, ECOMM Co. (Founding Conference Organizer).

The American Embassy included the dinner venue in the Ambassador's planned visit to Crimea, in order to brief Ambassador Pascual and his delegation on the proceedings and preliminary results of the conference. Consistent with the goals of the ULRMC project, Ambassador Pascual had an opportunity to discuss current Ukrainian secrecy laws that substantially restrict access to and use of high-resolution satellite imagery and large-scale cartographic materials. The American Embassy in Kyiv has advanced these discussions in recent weeks with the government of Ukraine, using talking points provided by ULRMC and Altarum at the request of the Ambassador.

For additional information on the ULRMC project, please contact Eric P. Luhmann, ULRMC's Program Manager.

[ Last updated : 02-Aug-2002 09:41 ]

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