Public members are named to CSCE Moscow meeting (09/01/91)

Public members are named to CSCE Moscow meeting

WASHINGTON - Robert McConnell, an attorney with the Washington office of the law firm Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher and vice-president of the Coordinating Committee to Aid Ukraine, has been selected as a public (non-governmental) member of the official U.S. delegation to the Moscow meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension.

Ukrainian American Orest Deychakiwsky of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission), will also be a member of the U.S. delegation.

The U.S. delegation will be led by veteran diplomat Ambassador Max Kampelman and will include representatives of the State Department, Helsinki Commission, the U.S. Information Agency, as well as public members.

The Moscow meeting will take place from September 10 to October 4 with the participation of the 35 member-states of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The meeting is expected to address the full range of human rights and humanitarian concerns encompassed in the Helsinki process.

Mr. McConnell was assistant attorney general in the United States Department of Justice throughout the first term of the Reagan Administration and vice-president of CBS in 1985-1988, before joining Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher.

In addition to being vice-president of the CCAU, Mr. McConnell is chairman of its Committee on Government Relations and Policy, and is chairman of government relations for Ukraine 2000: The Washington Committee in Support of Ukraine. He is also a member of the advisory board of Sister Cities International.

Mr. Deychakiwsky, a staff member of the Helsinki Commission, has been a member of U.S. delegations to previous CSCE meetings held in various European cities. At the Commission, Mr. Deychakiwsky's responsibilities include Ukraine, Bulgaria, Soviet emigration and liaison with non-governmental organizations. As a commission staff member, he has observed and written published commission reports on the March 1990 elections in Ukraine and the March 1991 referendum in Ukraine and, most recently, a report on National Minorities in Ukraine.

Mr. Deychakiwsky is also chairman of The Washington Group's Fellowship Committee and is active in other Ukrainian American organizations.