Subject: Draft Statement
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:00:23 -0400

Draft Statement of RHB – For Consideration

“I have spent more than twenty years as a lawyer and a businessman helping companies succeed. I’m proud of that record.  I was and I remain personally committed to an independent, secure, and prosperous Ukraine.  Like the United State Government, I believe that there’s no future for Ukraine without energy security and without rooting out corruption. I joined the Board for that simple reason, to help deliver on the promise of Ukraine’s energy security and to strengthen corporate governance. That mission excited me and it excited many others, including the former President of Poland. No one said business in Ukraine would be easy or that progress would happen overnight. There are all kinds of grievances and grudges among businesses and political leaders over what’s been a very difficult twenty years in Ukraine. But if energy security is going to be achieved, we have to turn the page. I’m focused on the future, not on relitigating the past, and I’m proud of the contribution we’ve made to try and help Ukraine at this critical time in its history when Russia was trying to do the very opposite. <>[ES1] <applewebdata://5FEC677F-B47B-4D9F-B262-87C886AE87AE#_msocom_1> “

Possible line to consider:

“Anyone who thinks the Board was assembled to draw some special influence on American policy need look no further than the Ambassador’s criticisms of the company’s owner. That’s proof positive that this company is treated just like any other.”    <>[ES2] <applewebdata://5FEC677F-B47B-4D9F-B262-87C886AE87AE#_msocom_2> 

 <> [ES1] <applewebdata://5FEC677F-B47B-4D9F-B262-87C886AE87AE#_msoanchor_1>Let’s discuss whether we want to be aggressive as it relates to the Russians.

 <> [ES2] <applewebdata://5FEC677F-B47B-4D9F-B262-87C886AE87AE#_msoanchor_2>I think we include this with as a background quote to the WSJ but let’s discuss whether to include in a blog statement or in a WSJ on the record comment.  I like it somewhere though.

Eric D. Schwerin
Rosemont Seneca Advisors, LLC
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