Subject: Re: Victor Pinchuk
From: Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:00:01 +0000

Yessir. Will do.

On Mar 30, 2015, at 10:45 AM, John Podesta <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

No is better. Is that viable?

On Mar 30, 2015 10:02 AM, "Huma Abedin" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
Ok
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From: Tina Flournoy <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 9:58:55 AM
To: Amitabh Desai
Cc: Jon Davidson; Margaret  Steenburg; Jake Sullivan; Dan Schwerin; Huma Abedin; John Podesta
Subject: Re: Victor Pinchuk

Team HRC - we'll get back to you on this

> On Mar 30, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
>
> Victor Pinchuk is relentlessly following up (including this morning) about a meeting with WJC in London or anywhere in Europe. Ideally he wants to bring together a few western leaders to show support for Ukraine, with WJC probably their most important participant. If that's not palatable for us, then he'd like a bilat with WJC.
>
> If it's not next week, that's fine, but he wants a date. I keep saying we have no Europe plans, although we do have those events in London in June. Are folks  comfortable offering Victor a private meeting on one of those dates? At this point I get the impression that although I keep saying WJC cares about Ukraine, Pinchuk feels like WJC hasn't taken enough action to demonstrate that, particularly during this existential moment for the county and for him.
>
> I sense this is so important because Pinchuk is under Putin's heel right now, feeling a great degree of pressure and pain for his many years of nurturing stronger ties with the West.
>
> I get all the downsides and share the concerns. I am happy to go back and say no. It would just be good to know what WJC (and HRC and you all) would like to do, because this will likely impact the future of this relationship, and slow walking our reply will only reinforce his growing angst.
>
> Thanks, and sorry for the glum note on a Monday morning...