ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE TAU GRIGOL KATAMADZE to the World Taxpayers Association, European Taxpayers Association and European Economic Senate!
European Taxpayers Association and European Economic Senate!
Dear European friends!
The eighth day of the bloody war in the middle of Europe continues. Every day, very small and innocent children and civilians die from shelling by the Russian aggressor.
Every day we, your partners, the Taxpayers Association of Ukraine provide you with information about the state of terrible affairs in our home country and ask for help and activity of your actions.
Dear colleagues! I never thought that such a horrible time would come when I could only support my professional specialists of the General Directorate of the TAU morally, to uplift their spirit, without financial support.
Probably only those who are here with us in Ukraine will be able to understand this.
The outside world and even Ukrainians who have gone abroad do not understand this horror. Trying to make sense of this with your mind and experiencing it every minute are two «different things». I am firmly convinced that there is no stronger and more cohesive nation in the world today than the Ukrainians. We have already overcome our «primary» fear, shock, pain, having personally gone through the awareness of such values as life and death, good and evil, compassion and pride, tears and joy, concern for the lives of parents and our innocent children.
And it seems that the words are clear and familiar to everyone. However, in the perception of the people who are now here in Ukraine, in the European capital Kyiv, they have a completely different value.
You have already realized that today Ukrainians are not just a nation — we are the only ones in modern Europe, we are ready to fight for the right to their lives, their freedom and future, and I am sure that this is what impressed the whole world.
Dear Colleagues, Dear Partners from the World Taxpayers Association, the Taxpayers Association of Europe and the European Economic Senate!
The World Association has 60 member countries, the European Taxpayers’ Association has 29 members — national taxpayers associations and the European Economic Senate has more than one million partner companies. This is a powerful force that could help us — Ukrainians!
You and I now have the task of stopping once and for all the shameful Kremlin regime of the «mad paranoid dictator.»!
We ask you all to do your utmost without delay to finally close NATO’s airspace over Ukraine’s skies.
We will never forget all those who help us in this difficult time for us and we will remember them for many years after the end of the war. And it will soon end with the Victory of Ukraine!
Thanks to the Ukrainian nation, the whole of Europe has a chance to survive and withstand together with us. Putin has absolutely no chance of winning.
Glory to Ukraine! Glory to our heroes defenders!
Grigol Katamadze
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
President of UNGO TAU
Vice President of the TAE