Mrs. Yushchenko Takes Part in a Meeting with Foreign States and International Organizations Representatives Dedicated to the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933
09 October 2007 19:13
October 9, 2007, the Ivan Honchar Museum hosted an informative meeting, dedicated to the Holodomor Manmade Famine of 1932-1933, for foreign states and international organizations representatives. The event was organized by the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund as a part of its History Lessons: Holodomor of 1932-1933 program jointly with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The goal of the meeting was providing representatives of the global community with comprehensive information on the Holodomor to ensure recognizing this tragedy an act of genocide on the bilateral and international level. Among the participants in this event were Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Kateryna Yushchenko, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Volodymyr Ohryzko, Acting Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, Head of the National Memory Institute Ihor Yukhnovsky, Department Head with the Institute for Political and Ethno-National Research at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Ph. D. in History Yuri Shapoval, heads of the diplomatic missions of over 50 states and foreign organizations representatives, and members of the Ukraine 3000 Fund.
Addressing the audience, Mrs. Yushchenko said, “Ukraine survived a tragedy of world proportions. We have looked it in the eyes and have made conclusions. We hope that our knowledge will help humanity to avoid similar tragedy in the future. We do not want the Holodomor to ever be repeated anywhere in any form. To achieve this, it is necessary that the world learns the truth about the Holodomor, and that it recognizes it as an act of genocide. I am certain that if the world community reacted adequately to the Holodomor 75 years ago, humanity would have been able to avoid this catastrophe that took the lives of tens of millions of people on various continents.”
Mrs. Yushchenko described the project carried out by the Ukraine 3000 Fund as a part of its History Lessons: Holodomor of 1932-1933 program, and voiced her hope that the meeting would help those present to learn more about the 1932-1933 events and draw their conclusions.
Speeches were also delivered by renowned scholars, politicians, community leaders, and witnesses of the tragedy. The guests could also visit the Destroyed by the Famine: the Unknown Genocide of the Ukrainians exhibition prepared by the Ukraine 3000 Fund. The exhibition was premiered in March 2007 in Brussels, at the European Parliament.
Besides, the audience was invited to taste the “bread of the famine,” cooked from the ingredients which were used in the years of Holodomor.
All diplomats received from the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund sets of books on the Manmade Famine, published with the Fund’s support. The set includes The Declassified Memory: The Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 through GPU-NKVD Documents and Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: Documents and Materials compiled by Ruslan Pyrih, a CD with materials form the Declassified Memory exhibition of SSU materials, and the Holodomor: the Technology of Genocide film (2005), directed by Viktor Deriuhin.
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