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The Ukrainian Weekly 1998, No.51 www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: • UACC’s new president plans to engage “new generation” — page 3. • Dateline: a pre-Christmas walk through Little Ukraine — page 10. • “Christmas comes but twice a year” — page 11. HEPublished byK the UkrainianRA NationalI AssociationNIA Inc., a Nfraternal non-profit associationEEKLY Vol. LXVIT UNo. 51 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBERW 20, 1998 $1.25/$2 in Ukraine Russian Duma vice-chairman calls Ukrainian World Congress bilateral treaty with Ukraine a ‘mistake’ holds its seventh conclave by Roman Woronowycz nar, Mr. Baburin said the treaty was Kyiv Press Bureau hastily put together and not properly Elects UCCA leader Lozynskyj as president thought through. KYIV – Ratification by Russia’s “This treaty is, in my view, a truly by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj spoke at the banquet on December 5, and Parliament of the Ukrainian-Russian nice gesture of friendship and coopera- Toronto Press Bureau Ukraine’s newly appointed ambassador to treaty on friendship and cooperation will tion between Presidents Boris Yeltsin Canada, Volodymyr Khandogiy, who not happen soon, the vice-chairman of TORONTO – The Ukrainian World attended most of the proceedings. and Kuchma, but my feeling is that the Russia’s Duma told representatives of Congress (UWC) held its seventh conclave Ukrainian World Coordinating Council interests of the people are far from iden- the political left from Belarus, Russia at the Harbour Castle Hotel on the Ontario (UWCC) President Ivan Drach also attend- and Ukraine on December 12 in Kyiv. tical to those of the presidents. In this capital’s lakefront on December 2-5, elect- ed, to take part in panel discussions, confer State Duma Vice-Chairman Sergei respect the treaty of 1997 is far inferior ing Askold Lozynskyj as its first U.S.-based on matters of UWC-UWCC relations and Baburin was in Kyiv to attend a political to the treaty of 1990, which is still in president since fellow New Yorker (and fel- deliver an address titled “Ukraine and seminar organized by the Patriotic Party effect, because the [latest] treaty does not low jurist) Ivan Bazarko served as leader of Ukrainian Communities in the 21st contain several provisions of coopera- of Ukraine called “Russia-Ukraine- the diaspora umbrella body in 1981-1983. Century.” tion, including in the field of defense,” Belarus: A Glimpse into the 21st Among the dignitaries who appeared Also in attendance was Archbishop said Mr. Baburin. Century.” during the congress were Saskatchewan’s Adrian Staryna, eparch of Dnipropetrovsk He said the 1997 treaty could turn out While calling the signing of the treaty a Premier Roy Romanow, who delivered the and Kryvyi Rih of the Ukrainian Orthodox to be “a scalpel used, not to cure the dis- Church – Kyiv Patriarchate, the man at the “mistake,” he said that it may be a while keynote address at the luncheon on before the State Duma debates the docu- ease, but to kill the patient.” center of the controversy surrounding the December 3, Ukraine’s Ambassador to the ment. “I would not be ready even to say church, seminary and gymnasium in (Continued on page 16) United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko, who that this treaty is being prepared in the Noginsk, Russia. political kitchen. Rather it has been placed Four panel discussions, included in the in the refrigerator,” said Mr. Baburin. program on December 4, addressed The Ukraine-Russia Treaty on CHRIST IS BORN — GLORIFY HIM! “Current Issues of Ukrainian Churches,” Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership “The Ukrainian Diaspora in Transition,” was signed in Kyiv on May 31, 1997, by “The Diaspora and Ukraine” and “The Role Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and of the UWC in the 21st Century.” Boris Yeltsin of Russia after five years of With the firm restraining hand of Chief negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow. Financial Officer William Sametz in evi- Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada ratified the dence (he returns for another term), the treaty in January 1998, while the Russian UWC adopted a “minimum budget” of State Duma, controlled by Communists, $240,000 (Canadian), with a provisional has stalled and wavered on the document fall-back “55 percent” budget of $133,000 for more than a year and a half. for 1999. These modest levels prompted the At a press conference after the semi- president-elect to call for a renewed fund- raising drive that would enable the UWC to at least double its budget in the coming years, given the “pressing and serious Lazarenko issues we need to address, and the many Ukrainians around the world who need our assistance.” denied bail All told, 192 delegates registered to par- ticipate in the four-day proceedings, plus a by Roman Woronowycz concert at the University of Toronto’s Kyiv Press Bureau Convocation Hall held on December 6. The KYIV – Ukrainian National Deputy UWC’s verifications committee also said Pavlo Lazarenko, arrested at the Swiss bor- the congress was attended by 361 guests. der and detained on charges of money laun- Thirty-six national umbrella organizations dering, was denied bail at a December 14 and 22 international Ukrainian organiza- court hearing in Geneva and will most like- tions were represented at the convention. In his acceptance speech, Mr. ly spend at least another month in jail. Lozynskyj emphasized the importance of The Judicial Chamber of Geneva, where commemorations of the genocidal Famine Mr. Lazarenko is being held, ruled that it of 1932-1933 as an important cathartic cannot accept the bail money offered by the means to educate Ukrainians in Ukraine, Ukrainian Parliament member because he Ukrainians around the world and the did not prove that the bail money was sepa- world at large that the only guarantor of rate from the funds that have been frozen in Ukrainian identity is a stable and demo- his Swiss bank accounts while he is being cratic independent state. investigated on charges of money launder- The UWC’s new president said the ing. Through his attorney, Mr. Lazarenko importance of Ukraine as a geopolitical had stated that he was ready to pay $3.5 presence, recognized by such influential million for his release on bail. strategic thinkers as Zbigniew Brzezinski, The court decision was made three days should encourage the Ukrainian diaspora to after the Judicial Chamber of Geneva pro- embrace its supporting role and thus realize longed the term of Mr. Lazarenko’s prelimi- its own importance. nary detention for one month. Mr. Lozynskyj offered an olive branch to On December 15 the Swiss Embassy in Mr. Drach of the Ukrainian World Kyiv issued a statement to explain the deci- Coordinating Council, who attended the “Happy Carolers” (1992), by Luba Maksymchuk, from a Christmas card published by the (Continued on page 3) Ukrainian National Association. (Continued on page 8) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1998 No. 51 FOR THE RECORD NNEEWWSSBBRRIIEEFFSS Ukraine’s ambassador to U.N. speaks National deputies approve draft budget he hoped the action would help initiate debate on the establishment of a profession- KYIV – The Ukrainian Parliament gave al army. He cited research which shows that on anniversary of Genocide Convention preliminary approval to a 1999 draft budget 8 percent of young people age 18-30 are Following is the text of a statement by soil is not changed, only the people have. after defying the government by increasing ready to serve under contract in the army Volodymyr Yelchenko, permanent represen- This is where we have to look for the caus- revenue and spending targets, the for a monthly salary of $100 (U.S.). tative of Ukraine to the United Nations, es of the great drama in which a whole Associated Press reported. The draft, which (Eastern Economist) delivered on December 2 at the Plenary nation has become the sacrificial victim.” provides for a balanced budget, was passed Meeting of the 53rd session of the U.N. Many years have passed since then, but by a vote of 288 to 25. Earlier, President Belarusian, Ukrainian chiefs sign act Leonid Kuchma had termed the draft “pop- General Assembly on the “50th anniversary this horrible tragedy cannot and should not MIENSK – Presidents Alyaksandr of the Convention on the Prevention and be forgotten. ulist and destructive.” It now goes back to the government, which must resubmit it for Lukashenka and Leonid Kuchma, meeting Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.” Recently, President Leonid Kuchma of in Miensk on December 11, signed a 10- Ukraine issued a decree in accordance a second reading on December 22. (RFE/RL Newsline) year economic cooperation treaty and dis- This year the world marks a very with which from now on the last Saturday cussed ways to reduce the impact of the important event of historic significance: of November will be marked as Famine Communists threaten to block ratifications Russian financial crisis on both countries, the 50th anniversary of the Universal Victims Memorial Day. Belarusian Television reported. “Whether Declaration of Human Rights – an interna- In his message on the occasion of the KYIV – The parliamentary caucus of the we like it or not, relations between Belarus tional instrument designed to promote and 65th anniversary of the 1932-1933 Famine Communist Party of Ukraine has threatened and Ukraine are directly dependent on sta- protect the basic elements of a meaningful addressed to the Ukrainian people and the to block ratification of all international bility in the Russian Federation,” Mr. human existence. Ukrainian American community, President agreements signed by the government, Lukashenka commented after the talks. The It is symbolic that adoption of this dec- Bill Clinton of the United States stressed Reuters reported on December 14. Rada Associated Press reported that Presidents laration was preceded by approval by the that “we have a solemn obligation to keep Vice-Chairman Adam Martyniuk, a mem- Lukashenka and Kuchma did not settle dif- General Assembly on December 9, 1948, alive the memory of the innocent victims ber of the Communist Party, said his caucus ferences over the repayment of Ukraine’s of the Convention on the Prevention and who suffered and died because of Stalin’s will not vote for any of the 64 international $200 million debt to Belarus.
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