\\%Ь9б by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a frattrnal non-profit association| V Vol. LXI ШNo. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1993 50 cents Donbas miners US. defense secretary visits Kyyiv, pledges new approach by Marta Kolomayets defense minister and Mr. Aspin's host Mr. Aspin told reporters. But, he added: continue protests Kyyiv Press Bureau during his visit, told reporters during a "We, of course, believe and would sup­ joint press conference on Monday after­ by Marta Kolomayets port the notion of a non-nuclear KYYIV — Actions, instead of words, noon, June 7, that he has "a positive atti­ Kyyiv Press Bureau Ukraine." signified a positive change in U.S. policy tude" toward the proposal, which would Secretary Aspin received assurances KYYIV — As The Weekly was toward Ukraine during a 24-hour visit to place the nuclear warheads now in tem­ of Ukraine's commitment to becoming a going to press,^coal miners from Kyyiv by U.S. Secretary of Defense Les porary storage in Ukraine under interna­ non-nuclear state from President Leonid Ukraine's heavily industrialized Aspin. tional control and then eventually take Kravchuk and the Ukrainian defense Donbas region were on strike, them to Russia where the nuclear materi­ minister. "I want to pledge to you that demanding a referendum in which Mr. Aspin arrived here on Sunday al would be extracted. our policy is not changing and I should they would express no confidence in afternoon, June 6, with proposals to 'This visit, the first ever by an think that the question of ratification of Ukraine's leadership and protesting encourage Ukraine's nuclear disarma­ American defense secretary to Ukraine, START and the NPT (Non-Proliferation the declining standard of living. They ment with U.S. intervention and interna­ confirms the intentions of the U.S. Treaty) will be solved before the end of also asked for more autonomy in their tional support. He was accompanied by a administration to start a new era in rela­ this session (of Parliament) in July," Mr. region. delegation from the Department of tions with Ukraine," said Gen. Morozov. Kravchuk told Mr. Aspin during a 70- Close to 200 mines in eastern Defense and Strobe Talbott, the Clinton '1 see and understand a little better minute meeting on Monday. Ukraine were already on strike on administration's ambassador-at-large for about what the Ukrainian parliamentari­ Thursday afternoon, June 10, accord­ Russia and the newly independent states. ans' concerns are, and I have a little bit (Continued on page 3) ing to members of the Donetske Gen. Konstantyn Morozov, Ukraine's better appreciation of their situation," Strike Committee, and workers of fac­ tories and businesses in the cities of Kuchma remarks Kharkiv and Donetske had joined the miners in solidarity. muddy the waters President Leonid Kravchuk addressed Ukraine's citizens for 40 by Marta Kolomayets minutes on Thursday evening, calling Kyyiv Press Bureau for order and respect toward the law, and asking people to report to work KYYIV — Just three days before the regularly. Aspin visit to Ukraine, Prime Minister Although he said he supported the Leonid Kuchma told Ukrainian parlia­ miners' demands for new elections, mentarians that "Ukraine should, at least he urged that this be done lawfully — temporarily, become a nuclear power." a law on elections must be passed. He He made those remarks during a closed said elections should not be held at a session of debates on nuclear disarma­ time of political and economic chaos. ment, on Thursday, June 3. Addressing the miners' proposals, he Although he is still the prime minister said he would support greater self- Marta Kolomayets (albeit a powerless one) of a government that favors quick ratification of START Ї U.S. Defense Secretary Les Aspin and Ukraine's Defense Minister Konstantyn (Continued on page 10) and accession to the Nuclear Non- Morozov conduct a ceremonial review of Ukraine's troops. Proliferation Treaty, Mr. Kuchma is also the former director of the world's largest missile factory, which built the 46 The demand for Ukraine^s most precious resource ICBMs that he suggested Ukraine should keep. Thoughts of Faith ministry in January 1992 brought 124 Mr. Kuchma, who spoke on the tech­ The Ternopil case orphans from Ternopil, Ukraine, to the United States for a nical aspects of nuclear weapons, urged by Khristina Lew four-month stay. According to Deputy Minister of Education the Parliament to ratify START I, which Anatoliy Pohribny, whose ministry oversees adoptions in would rid Ukraine of 130 ICBMs, but Like the Eastern European countries that opened their bor­ Ukraine, the case of the 124 orphans and others prompted the postpone joining the NPT. ders to foreigners before it, Ukraine in 1991 became a hotbed Ukrainian government, like the Romanian government before Mr. Kuchma's statement, reported in of golden opportunity. German, Dutch, Japanese and American it, to halt the adoption of Ukrainian children by foreigners on the Western media, sent panic signals businessmen flooded Kyyiv's airports and hotels, exploring the May 12 until a"new law on adoption is passed. The new law is among Western nations, including the newfound terrain and setting up businesses, Ukraine's expected to be approved in early 1994. United States and Great Britain, who resources were ripe for the picking, and many would claim that The directive halting adoptions by foreigners, issued by want Ukraine to keep its commitment to included its children. Minister for Humanitarian Policy My kola Zhulynsky, was^ becoming a non-nuclear state. Suddenly Ukraine's orphanages were playing host to directed to oblast administrations (while adoptions are Western nations have been pressuring Germans, Itcdians, Americans — prospective parents hoping to processed on the raion level, permission to adopt is granted by Ukraine into giving up its nuclear forgo the prohibitive cost and wait of adopting a child in their the oblast) and has not been made public in Ukraine. An offi­ weapons, which it inherited after the own country. As many Ukrainians wish to adopt, foreigners, cial at the U.S. Embassy in Kyyiv said the American Embassy break-up of the Soviet Union, but have among them Westerners of Ukrainian descent, were put on a in Moscow has been alerted to the Ukrainian government's yet to offer the kinds of security guaran­ waiting list along with everyone else. But foreigners could pro­ moratorium. The Embassy in Moscow, which is larger and bet­ tees 0? financial compensation Ukrainian vide the orphanages what Ukrainians cannot — donations in ter equipped to handle adoptions, reviews an American citi­ deputiec: Think it should receive. the form of vitamins and medicines, toys, clothing — which zen's petition to adopt a Ukrainian child and issues that child's, It is in ai^pute among Ukrainian gov­ sped up the adoption process. immigration papers. ernment officials whether Mr. Kuchma Ukrainian children make up close to half of all In March of this year, the American Embassy in Moscow spoke as a deputy, г technical expert or Commonwealth of Independent States adoptions. And while the processed 38 adoptions of Ukrainian children; in April, 31, and as the prime minister. Goverament offi­ adoption of Ukrainian children had not reached the fevered in May, 32. Presumably, adoption documents presented or cials have been quick to add that he is an pitch of Romania, the incidence of suspect adoption practices dated before the May 12 deadline were still honored. In the expert in this field and has a right to say prompted the Ukrainian media to bring the matter to the fore in first nine days of June, three adoptions of Ukrainian children what he thinks, even though this does late 1992. Frequently cited on the pages of the Ukrainian press not reflect the Ukrainian government's was the situation involving Lutheran Pastor John Shep, whose (Continued on page 4) official position. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1993 No. 24 NEWS ANALYSIS Newsbriefs Ukraine's search for security on Ukraine by Dr. Roman Solchanyk was the fourth point in the text of the RFE/FL Research Institute guarantees, which stipulated that Russia respect Ukraine's borders "within the Russia cuts oil supplies his capacity as a deputy of Parliament, CONCLUSION framework of the CIS." Such a formula­ not as prime minister. (RFE/RL Daily • KYYIV — A senior official of the tion, which would tie Ukraine to mem­ Report). No less problematical for Ukraine is Ukrainian State Oil and Gas Committee bership in the CIS, was rejected by the question of how Russia defines the said Russia has cut oil supplies to German chemicals dumped in Ukraine Kyyiv. CIS and its own role in the Ukraine to one-fifth of its already At a meeting of Ukrainian and Commonwealth and, indeed, in the larg­ reduced levels because Ukraine remains • BONN — The environmental group Russian deputy foreign ministers in Greenpeace has said that 230 tons c er geopolitical space of the former in arrears, reported Reuters on June 3. Kyyiv in late February, the Ukrainian highly toxic chemicals have been Soviet Union. If there were any doubts According to government ministries rep­ side was told that the text had been draft­ dumped in army barracks in Ukraine, about Moscow's desire to see the CIS as resentatives, Ukraine is receiving 15,000 ed together with Russian parliamentary reported Reuters on June 6. The toxic a tightly integrated structure replete with to 20,000 tons of oil per day instead of committees and that "the Russian waste, which includes red and white coordinating bodies, they have been dis­ the called for 80,000 to 100,000 tons.