The Ukrainian Weekly 1990, No.25
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www.ukrweekly.com I ML P>ublished ^ the Utopian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association! Ukrainian Weekl Vol. LVIII No. 25 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1990 50 cents Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine Democratic deputies to head An appeal from UNA Executive seven parliamentary committees LONDON — Seven standing com part of Mr. Ivashko toward the DB to all branches and members mittees of the new Ukrainian SSR following a wave of protests against his Supreme Soviet will be headed by holding two top posts, making him At the end of May 1990, the 32nd Regular Convention of the Ukrainian deputies from the Democratic Bloc, simultaneously head of a party and the National Association was held with nearly 300 delegates and members of the reported the Ukrainian Press Agency of government. Supreme Assembly participating. London. In protest against Mr. Ivashko's The participants of this conclave, who represented tens of thousands of During a June 15 session, the Ukrai our UNA members, considered the fact that Ukraine is slowly shattering the election as chairman of Ukraine's nian Parliament, headed by Ukrainian Supreme Soviet, Mr. Yukhnovsky chains of many years of Muscovite-Communist subjugation, and affirmed the Communist Party chief Volodymyr urgent need to increase assistance to the Ukrainian nation in its struggle for announced during a June 8 Parliament Ivashko, elected the following DB session the formation of an opposition complete independence and freedom, to help it in establishing a democratic deputies to their posts: Dmytro Pavly- foundation of government, as well as to assist the current renaissance of the group of deputies, the National Coun chko, representing Ternopil Oblast, as cil, or Narodna Rada. Ukrainian language, culture and ancient traditions. head of the foreign affairs committee; As a result of a unanimous and enthusiastic vote by the delegates, a UNA Oleksander Kotsiuba of Kiev as head of According to the UPA, the June 14 Fund for the Rebirth of Ukraine was created. The UNA itself will pay the law committee; Les Taniuk of Kiev issue of Literaturna Ukraina, the $100,000 per year into this fund over the next four years, and the convention as head of the culture committee; Ihor weekly organ of the Writers' Union of participants began the fund-raising drive by donating generously to this Yukhnovsky of Lviv as head of the Ukraine, contains information about cause. education and science committee; Pavlo the newly formed National Council, Since its founding, the UNA has supported all aspirations of the Ukrainian Vitsiak of Lutske as head of the health organized within the Ukrainian Parlia nation toward independence. As early as October 1900, in an article in committee; and Mykola Zaludiak of ment to unify the democratic opposi Svoboda titled "To Work, Brothers!," the idea was raised that, in order to Kremenchuk as head of the ecology tion against the Communist Party and unite ail Ukrainians into one independent state based on democratic committee. nomenklatura deputies. principles, "it is necessary to create in America a national fund, through No information was available at The new council includes regional (Continued on page 16) press time about the seventh DB deputy parliamentary groups from Kiev, Lviv, chosen to head a parliamentary com Ivano-Frankivske, Ternopil and de mittee, nor about elections of other puties from Volyn, Kharkiv and Rivne, WCFU in Copenhagen: playing committee heads. as well as other oblasts. It also includes The election of these deputies appears the parliamentary factions Vidrodzhen- crucial role at CSCE conference to have been a conciliatory move on the (Continued on page 16) by Lisa Shymko mit several weeks ago, in their opening and Christina Isajiw remarks to the Copenhagen Conference, Mria, world's largest cargo plane, both the United States Secretary of COPENHAGEN — Over the past State James Baker and Soviet Foreign carries relief supplies to Ukraine two weeks, diplomats and foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze spoke ministers from the 35 signatory coun of "the new age" now facing Europe and by Roma Hadzewycz the New Jersey-based Children of tries of the Helsinki Accords have been placed great emphasis on the growing Chornobyl Relief Fund, included medi meeting in Copenhagen, to discuss role that the CSCE will play as the OKLAHOMA CITY — A third cines, bandages, tetanus vaccines and issues relating to human rights and changes in Europe continue. But not shipment of medical and other relief other medical supplies, vitamins, baby human contacts as part of the ongoing withstanding the optimism voiced by supplies bound for Ukraine for victims food, flour and other foodstuffs, as well process also known as the Conference the two superpower foreign ministers, of Chornobyl nuclear disaster left as two presses. on Security and Cooperation in Europe numerous government delegations as Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World The presses are destined for Kiev's (CSCE). The Copenhagen Conference well as several NGOs, particularly the Airport on Tuesday afternoon, June 19, Naukpva Knyha publishers and for is the second of three meetings which WCFU placed great emphasis upon the aboard the world's largest cargo plane, Lviv for the printing of medical texts* began in Paris in 1989 and which will many unresolved problems which the Ukrainian-built Antonov-225 called and ihedical records for area hospitals. end in Moscow next year. threaten to destroy the integrity of the "Mria" (Dream). T/he shipment was valued at $3.9 entire Helsinki process. The 60-ton shipment, organized by ^Continued on page 4) Playing an integral role in this four- week conference, entitled The Human The WCFU, as an NGO representing Dimension, are the many non-govern over 5 million Ukrainians outside the mental organizations (NGOs) whose USSR, was responsible for issuing several important recommendations to job it is to monitor violations of the the CSCE Conference. One of its Helsinki agreements committed by the recommendations on the Rule of Law governments of the signatory states. addressed one of the more volatile Among the more vocal NGOs partici issues at the Copenhagen Conference — pating in the Copenhagen Meeting is the issue of Lithuanian independence. the World Congress of Free Ukrainians The WCFU recommendation urged (WCFU), which played an important the delegations to the CSCE to remain role during the CSCE's first week. consistent with Principle VIII of the The WCFU delegation was headed Helsinki Accords — the right of peoples by former Canadian member of parlia to self-determination — by "supporting ment, Andrew Witer, together with the peaceful democratic assertion of Christina Isajiw, executive director of these rights should a people seek to the WCFU's Human Rights Commis restore their political independence sion, and Lisa Shymko, an accredited through their freely elected govern freelance journalist from Canada, ments." In fact, the entire question of representing the Ukrainian Echo news Lithuanian independence was not only addressed by the WCFU but also by paper. Mria9 its name written m Ukrainian Setters on the world's largest cargo plane* just In the wake of the U.S,-Soviet sum (Continued on page 12) before departure from Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1990 A GLIMPSE OF SO WET REALITY GLASNOST DIARY: Fourth anniversary accounts recording changes in the USSR of Chornobyl offer new info Statistics on joint ventures in Soviet Union by Dr. David Marples singly bitter; a long (and uncorrobo Reuters reported in January that industry and service establishments; 20 Radio Liberty Research rated) list of casualties from irradiation more than 1,000 foreign firms had esta percent in industrial services, such as is being drawn up in Byelorussia. A case blished joint ventures with Soviet marketing, engineering and mainte PART II might be made therefore for Chornobyl partners. However, many of the enter nance; and 15 percent in heavy industry as, first and foremost, a Byelorussian prises have failed to start up or have and machine tools. Byelorussia and Russia tragedy, but generally speaking the gone bankrupt. TASS acknowledged that all were nature of the problem has yet to pene Reuters cited a report from TASS, frequently faced with legal, financial The lengthy article by Yuriy Izrael trate the world media. the official Soviet news agency, which and organizational problems. "The published in Pravda, while to some noted that the Finance Ministry of the number of joint enterprises that have extent an attempt at self-exoneration in As for the Russian Republic, a total USSR had registered 1,284 joint ven not begun operations is very high. There the face of adverse criticism (from Dr. of 8,130 square kilometers today have a tures with a total charter capital of more are cases when they go bankrupt or Yuriy Shcherbak, chairman of the cesium content of more than five curies than $3 billion. dissolve," TASS reported. Zelenyi Svit ecological association in per square kilometer. In a high-level TASS did not report how much Ukraine, Ales' Adamovich, the out report about the current situation in A breakdown of the joint ventures Western capital was actually at work or spoken deputy from Byelorussia, and Russia, V. Doguzhiyev, who has headed shows that about 50 percent are in light how many ventures had failed. others), did reveal that the conse a group of experts re-examining the quences of Chornobyl fallout have been effects of radiation, cited the Briansk far more severe in Byelorussia than region as the only contaminated region Patriarchal Society leader speaks elsewhere. of Byelorussia. Deputy Y. Samarin, A Western critic has pointed out that however, pointed out that the maps now while Byelorussia received a minuscule available showed that the Kalush, on Church developments in Ukraine proportion of funds allocated for eva Orlov, Tula and Kursk regions should by Natalka Gawdiak Another barrier Mrs.