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The Ukrainian Weekly 1996, No.40 www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE:• Central and East European Coalition presents Distinguished Service Awards — page 3. • New English-language terminology from Ukraine — page 6. • Foreign Minister Hennadi Udovenko’s press conference in New York — page 9. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIV HE No.KRAINIAN 40 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1996 EEKLY$1.25/$2 in Ukraine MoscowT meetingsU make progress Udovenko warnsW U.N. General Assembly on Russian-Ukrainian friendship treaty of concern over deployment of nukes by Roman Woronowycz the log jam and that within weeks most by Khristina Lew weapons to the east and west. Kyiv Press Bureau of the most important documents, includ- In an annual address to the General ing the division of the Black Sea Fleet UNITED NATIONS — Ukraine’s Assembly, Mr. Udovenko reiterated KYIV — The treaty on friendship and (BSF), would be ready for signing. Minister of Foreign Affairs Hennadi President Leonid Kuchma’s proposal for cooperation between Ukraine and Since 1994, Ukraine and Russia have Udovenko warned the 51st session of the the creation of a nuclear-weapon-free zone Russia, which has been in the making for been working on a friendship treaty, an U.N. General Assembly on September 26 in Central and Eastern Europe “between several years, could soon be ready for effort that has been derailed several that his country is concerned by the pos- the Baltic and Black seas,” and empha- signing. Maybe. times, chiefly because the two countries sible deployment of nuclear weapons on sized that support for such a zone would On October 1, Yuriy Sergeyev, head have not been able to agree on the status the territories of Ukraine’s neighbors. “promote an atmosphere of confidence of the press bureau of the Ministry of of the BSF’s main port, Sevastopol, and Should NATO expand into Central between and among the states of the Foreign Affairs, said a series of meetings Russia’s demand that it have more than and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, a non-bloc held last week in Moscow had broken one base in Crimea. state, could be flanked by nuclear (Continued on page 9) On September 28, Ukraine’s President Leonid Kuchma flew to Moscow for an impromptu working meeting with Earmarks for Ukraine Russia’s Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. The meeting was a result of what Mr. Sergeyev called “unusually are signed into law dynamic and intense dialogue” last week by Eugene Iwanciw between the deputy prime ministers of Ukraine and Russia, Vasyl Durdynets WASHINGTON – President Bill and Valeriy Serov, respectively. Clinton signed into law a $600 billion One outcome of Mr. Kuchma’s meet- spending bill containing a $225 million ing is that Prime Minister Chernomyrdin earmark (spending mandate) for Ukraine, will visit Kyiv at the end of October, on the evening of September 30. The mea- which he announced in Moscow on sure, H.R. 3610, incorporates the foreign October 1, although he did not give a assistance bill and five other unfinished specific date. appropriations bills for fiscal year 1997. Interfax-Ukraine reported that Mr. As previously reported when the foreign Chernomyrdin said all the major issues assistance bill passed the House-Senate that need to be resolved before a treaty conference on September 17, the legislation on friendship and cooperation could be contains an earmark of “not less than” $225 signed had been touched on and that million for Ukraine and a series of subear- “considerable progress” had been marks for programs that the Ukrainian gov- achieved. “We must stop beating around ernment requested, including programs for the bush, it is time to sign an agree- agriculture, small business development, a ment.” land and resources management institute, Whether Mr. Chernomyrdin has the and commercial law reform. political authority to move to such an The bill provided a total of $625 mil- agreement is yet to be seen, but he did lion of assistance to the new independent say that Russian President Boris Yeltsin Khristina Lew states of the former Soviet Union under has been apprised of the latest develop- the Freedom Support Act. Foreign Affairs Minister Hennadi Udovenko speaks at Ukraine’s Consulate The Clinton administration, which (Continued on page 8) General in New York. strongly opposed the subearmarks for Ukraine, fought unsuccessfully to strip the earmark for Ukraine and a $95 mil- lion earmark for Armenia. Bishop Husar speaks on 400th anniversary of Union of Brest In commenting on the bill, Sen. Mitch by Roman Woronowycz which marked the reconciliation of a themes that will make the Church in McConnell (R-Ky.), chairman of the Kyiv Press Bureau portion of Orthodox Christianity with Ukraine stronger: recruitment and Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the Rome, which had been divided by the development of clergy in Ukraine; Senate Appropriations Committee, stated: KYIV — Bishop Lubomyr Husar on Great Schism (1378-1417). strengthening family units; catechiza- “Even though the administration made September 19 announced that yearlong The union was proclaimed between tion of Ukrainian Greek-Catholics; and repeated and public attempts, including celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the Ruthenian (Ukrainian-Belarusian) attention to youth. late-night phone calls, to strip out the ear- the union between portions of Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in what was then the Four commissions have been set up to marks, we succeeded in retaining them in Orthodoxy and the Holy See of Rome Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and develop these topics. They are headed by the final bill. This is a clear and total victo- will culminate with observances in Lviv, Rome. Dr. Borys Gudziak, director of the ry which serves the interests of Ukrainian the seat of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Institute of Church History, Lviv, and the The move was spurred by the development and bilateral ties.” Church, beginning on October 4, and in Rev. Andriy Chirovsky, director of Turkish conquest of the patriarchy in “This year’s foreign aid bill is a great Kyiv on November 24. Eastern Christian Studies, Ottawa Constantinople in 1453, the creation of victory for Ukraine and the Ukrainian The bishop also discoursed at length (recruitment of priests); the Rev. American community,” said Rep. Nita the Moscow Patriarchate in 1589 and Yaroslav Buduikevych of Ivano- on his views of Catholic-Orthodox rela- major internal strife within the Lowey (D-N.Y.), a member of the House tions in Ukraine and mentioned a possi- Frankivsk University and Prof. Stepan Foreign Relations Committee. She went on Ukrainian Church. The agreement rec- Vovkanych of Lviv (family); the Rev. ble visit by Pope John Paul II to ognized the pope as the head of the to state: “Ukraine has demonstrated over Ukraine next year. Myron Bendyk, rector of the Institute of the last five years that it is deserving of our Church and allowed Ukrainians to Catechism in Drohobych and the Rev. respect, praise, and commitment. The criti- Bishop Husar’s first order of busi- retain their Eastern-rite traditions. Luisa Tsiupa of the Catholic Center of cal U.S. aid package to Ukraine sends a ness was the 400th anniversary of the Bishop Husar said the commemora- Union of Brest on October 16, 1596, tive celebrations will focus on four (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 17) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1996 No. 40 COMMENTARY: International Congress NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS of Ukrainian Studies held against the odds Chornobyl neutron leaks not threatening because of a disruption in government by Yaroslav Bilinsky windows, without a functioning micro- financing. Boris Shakhsuvarov, the air- phone), Prof. Shevelov’s remarks were KYIV — A Ukrainian government com- CONCLUSION port’s first deputy director, said on brilliant – and unusually brief. After a mission has concluded that the three record- September 18 that the goverment had allo- The second day of the International few questions to Prof. Shevelov, the sec- ed increases in neutron emissions at cated 35 million hryvni ($20 million) for Congress of Ukrainian Studies, August ond linguistic panel returned to its previ- Chornobyl reactor No. 4 in September the work but less than a third had been dis- 27, was marked by at least two organiza- ously assigned room and to its program. caused no rise in radiation levels. bursed. “Financing has been stopped. The tional disasters. The big plenary session In general, colleagues from Canada Committee Chairman Viktor Chebrov said government has no money. We hope the started 45 minutes late, with the speakers and the U.S. complained that several the incidents have posed “neither a nuclear government will come up with the money having to struggle with an imperfect Ukrainian Ukrainians pre-empted the threat nor a threat of sarcophagus destruc- to finish the job.” The second runway, built microphone. Then the congress broke up paper presentation and discussion by for- tion,” as claimed recently by Ukrainian in the 1970s, was to have been brought into presentation and discussion sections mally registering their papers to get onto Environment Minister Yuriy Kostenko. back into service by mid-1997. But Mr. by discipline, without most of the partici- the official program and then not show- Ukrainian and Western agencies reported Shakhsuvarov said this was unlikely to pants having any clear idea where their ing up at all, without any explanation. that President Leonid Kuchma has admon- happen before the end of next year. assigned rooms were. (A floor plan, a The universally respected Canadian ished Mr. Kostenko for trying to “intimidate Boryspil’s main runway is to be renovated sine qua non at American professional Church historian Prof. Bohdan people” with his warnings of a possible in 1998. About 30 airlines, including most meetings, was never provided.) The Bociurkiw, who has just retired from steam explosion at the reactor.
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