333333 -A N 0003406 0064A ROMA'HADIEWYCZ ЙЯЖЬІЙ AVC' NJ 07960 Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association rainian Wee Vol. LX No. 24 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1992 50 cents U.S. appeals court reopens U.S. ambassador arrives in Kiev Demjanjuk extradition case Presents credentials to Ukraine's president JERSEY CITY, N.J. - A federal full well that his client was not "Ivan the by Marta Kolomayets "As an American of Ukrainian appeals court in Ohio on June 5 ordered Terrible" and that the U.S. had possess­ Kiev Press Bureau descent, Ukraine has a special place in the reopening of the extradition case ed exonerating evidence but withheld my heart. Ukraine is the fatherland of involving John Demjanjuk, the former that information from the defense. KIEV — U.S. Ambassador Roman my parents and thus, I was very much U.S. citizen now making the final The Sixth Circuit Court ordered the Popadiuk presented his diplomatic looking forward to my trip to Ukraine," appeal of his conviction and death Justice Department to produce by July credentials to Ukrainian President said the 42-year-old diplomat as he sentence for Nazi war crimes to Israel's 15 a brief "describing any items of Leonid Kravchuk at Kiev's lavish stepped onto Ukrainian soil for only Supreme Court. evidence of any kind of which it has Mariyinsky Palace on Tuesday after­ the second time in his life. (He had Acting on its own initiative, a three- knowledge tending to show that the noon, June 9, beginning yet another traveled to Ukraine with President new page in U.S.-Ukrainian relations. judge panel for the U.S. Court of petitioner-appellant, Demjanjuk,is not George Bush in August 1991, serving as Appeals for the Sixth District in Cin­ the 'Ivan the Terrible' who committed "I am very happy to be present here in White House deputy press secretary at cinnati said the extradition warrant war crimes at the Treblinka death camp, Ukraine. I thank you for such a warm the time.) issued in 1986 — which allowed Mr. in particular murder, ... together with a welcome, but it is I that should be "This is a dream come true to be able Demjanjuk to be taken to Israel to statement of approximately when greeting you. I welcome the rebirth of to play a role for the leading country in stand trial for the crimes of the Tre- agents of the United States first learned the Ukrainian people, I welcome the the world today to help maintain and blinka death camp guard known as of each such item of evidence." independence of the Ukrainian state," support that independence. It is an "Ivan the Terrible" — "may have been As well, the court ordered the Dem­ said the first U.S. ambassador to honor and a historic opportunity... The improvidently issued because it was janjuk defense to file a brief "describing Ukraine, speaking in the Ukrainian only regret that I have is that my parents based on егшпеош-пйогтаеіал." affidavits, depositions or other state­ language, as he stepped off the Lufthan­ are not alive to witness this," Mr, The appeals court order stated: "In a ments of witnesses ... which tend to sa Airlines flight which brought him and Popadiuk told The Washington Post in previous decision of this court in this show that a man known as Ivan his family to Kiev's Boryspil Airport on an interview last month. case, we declined to stop the extradi­ (Continued on page 10) Monday afternoon, June 8. Ambassador Popadiuk, one of the tion by issuing a writ of habeas corpus. youngest in Ukraine's growing corps of Our previous study of the record and foreign envoys, was the 11th ambassa­ numerous recent press reports and Western experts: radical economic reform dor to be received by President Krav­ articles in the United States indicated chuk since Ukraine declared its inde­ that the extradition warrant by the must precede introduction of the hryvnia pendence on August 24,1991. After the Executive Branch may have been im­ United States recognized Ukraine as an providently issued because it was based by Chrystyna Lapychak hensive policy approach be taken," said independent state on December 25, on erroneous information. Considera­ 1991, the U.S. Consulate in Kiev was tion should be given to its validity and Special to The Ukrainian Weekly Mr. Summers. The World Bank could offer hun­ upgraded to an Embassy and Jon to whether this court's refusal to grant Gundersen, charge d'affaires, ex­ the petition for writ of habeas corpus KIEV - A good deal of attention has dreds of millions of dollars for imports been paid in the Western media to crucial to Ukraine's economic recovery, changed diplomatic notes in mid- was erroneous." January with Ukraine's foreign Chief Judge Gilbert S. Merritt, Ukraine's plan to introduce its own depending on "the content of policy currency, but many Western and Ukrai­ reforms undertaken," said Mr. Sum­ minister, Anatoliy Zlenko. Circuit Judge Damon J. Keith and Upon arriving in Kiev, Ambassador Senior Circuit Judge Pierre Lively, nian economists have warned that mers. doing so without implementing radical Ukrainian reformers have voiced Popadiuk, who was appointed by wrote: "In our previous decision we said President Bush in March and confirmed that the extradition should be limited: economic reforms could threaten frustration over the sluggish pace of the the fledgling state's transition to a legislative process and particularly over by the U.S. Senate on May 25, rein­ The district court clearly certified that forced U.S. commitment to Ukraine. Demjanjuk was subject to extradition market economy. implementation of the few laws already solely on the charge of murder. Though "As far as ultimate goals, we have few passed. "The friendship between the United some of the acts which Demjanjuk is concerns," said Larry Summers, vice- In a recent interview with Reuters, States and Ukraine is constant and charged with may also constitute other president of the World Bank, on May 29 the young reformer and Vice Prime deep-rooted. Our president, as you offenses listed in the treaty, he may be after a week of meetings with Ukrai­ Minister Volodymyr Lanovoy said he heard last month, spoke of not only a tried in Israel only on that charge.' " nian leaders in Kiev. would not rule out resigning his past if relationship, but a partnership between "We were encouraged by the commit­ the pace of economic reform isn't our two nations. The U.S. and Ukraine Thus, the statement notes that it was hastened and if the government — still stand together; together we will coope­ because Mr. Demjanjuk was believed to ment of officials toward a transition to a market economy based on free prices full of former Communist Party func­ rate for our mutual benefit, for the good be the murderous "Ivan the Terrible" tionaries — isn't re-organized soon. of the entire world," he said as he was that he was extradited to Israel. Now, and private enterprise. But we have real concerns about transition and imple­ Mr. Lanovoy, whose economic re­ greeted with the traditional bread and with new evidence pointing to another form program submitted by Ukraine for salt by U.S. Embassy staff, including man, one Ivan Marchenko, as the real mentation steps toward reform," Mr. Summers told a news conference, re­ IMF membership won high praise from Mr. Gundersen, currently the deputy "Ivan," the basis for the extradition is that organization, presented the long- chief of mission, and his wife, Eike; John under scrutiny. flecting what many World Bank and International Monetary Fund experts awaited privatization program for 1992 Stepanchuk, first secretary for political In addition, some observers have visiting Kiev have said privately. to the Ukrainian Parliament on June 4. affairs; Maria Rudensky, vice-consul; noted that Israel would never have "We are worried about the size of the Mr. Lanovoy also holds the portfolio and Bohdan Paschyn, administrative sought the extradition of Mr. Demjan­ budget deficit, the serious disincentive of minister of the economy. officer. juk for offenses other than those of the effects of high taxes and transfers, the Implementation of the program, Ambassador Popadiuk's wife, Judith, brutal Treblinka guard. heavy burden of state orders, regula­ which outlines the goals and mecha­ a third-generation Ukrainian Ameri­ Recent news reports, both in the print tions and price controls, the slow pace nisms of privatization of small and large can, and their four children, Gregory, and broadcast media in the United of privatization of small businesses and businesses over the next three years, is Matthew, Cathy and Mary, were also States, have noted that it appears the farms," he continued. an essential prerequisite to currency welcomed at the airport with bouquets U.S. Justice Department knew of the "Weaxe concerned that without more introduction, according to both Messrs. of flowers and miniature American existence of Ivan Marchenko as early rapid structural reforms along these Lanovoy and Summers. flags. as 14 years ago. Indeed, Mr. Demjan- lines, an introduction of a new currency If adopted during its second reading On Tuesday morning, June 9, the new juk's Israeli lawyer, Yoram Sheftel, would be very dangerous. So we urged by the Parliament before it breaks for ambassador started his day at the argued last week that the U.S., the the leaders that the pace of reform be the summer, the program would aim at Embassy before making his way to the USSR and possibly Israel had known accelerated ... and that a more compre­ (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page І0) THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1992 INTERVIEW: Volodymyr Lanovoy comments on economic stagnation News briefs by Volodymyr Stachko bureaucratic structures that are resist­ on Ukraine IntelNews ing reform.