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The Ukrainian Weekly 1996, No.44 www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE:• Crimea: Ukraine’s Sicily — page 2. • Ukrainian-American Military Association is established — page 3. • What’s new for children? — centerfold. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXIV HE No.KRAINIAN 44 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 EEKLY$1.25/$2 in Ukraine Canadian foreign minister brings FleetT negotiationsU are nearly completed W by Roman Woronowycz issues, including the division of bays. Kyiv Press Bureau However, Viedomosti did report that a 20- $600 million in aid to Ukraine year lease had been agreed upon. KYIV — Discussions on the splitting President Kuchma later stated, “So far by Roman Woronowycz Foreign Minister Axworthy explained of the Black Sea Fleet are practically as Russia has agreed to a lease, it is not Kyiv Press Bureau that the time is right for expanded invest- completed and a draft agreement should ment in Ukraine. “When you look at the worth returning to rubber-band pulling,” KYIV – Canada’s Foreign Minister be ready for review by the countries’ two referring to the political gamesmanship new Constitution, the new currency and the prime ministers shortly, said the press Lloyd Axworthy came to Ukraine on new economic stability, these are major that has surrounded movement toward October 23 loaded with $600 million service of Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers resolution of the differences. changes,” he explained, adding that the on October 31. (Canadian) worth of financial treats. It The latest round of discussions began new agreements expand the already close A statement by First Vice Prime was a week early for Halloween, but this relationship between the two countries. Minister Vasyl Durdynets released by on October 29, with the two sides strug- financially starved country readily gling through three issues: the status and “After these agreements are signed the press service explained that his cur- accepted the financial aid and new busi- today, Canada will become one of the rent meetings with Russia’s Vice terms for the basing of the Russian fleet ness investments that Canada handed out. in Sevastopol; on the parameters of the largest investors in Ukraine,” said Mr. Premier Valerii Serov “open the way to On October 24, Mr. Axworthy, meeting Axworthy. Canada has already committed the resolution of the politicized and splitting of the infrastructure; and the with Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Minister terms of lease and method of payment. more than $120 million through CIDA for extremely painful Black Sea Fleet (BSF) Hennadiy Udovenko, announced a series of the development of the energy sector, eco- At that meeting, Mr. Durdynets urged problem and the signing of a comprehen- agreements that would develop Ukraine’s nomic reform and relief for victims of the the parties to work to ensure a November sive bilateral treaty of friendship and energy sector, including a $150 million Chornobyl nuclear disaster. 10 signing date. He said the three issues partnership,” according to Interfax- project by Northland Power for reconstruc- The Canadian minister also announced are the final obstacles to agreement. The Ukraine. tion and modernization of Ukrainian elec- that a Canadian consulate will soon open two sides are scheduled to finalize nego- The two high-level Cabinet ministers tric power plants, and a plan to build a in Lviv and that Air Canada will begin tiations next week. President Kuchma have met several times in the last month “World Trade Center” in Kyiv, the cost of air travel services to Kyiv beginning has said he would like to see a formal and have slowly moved forward in which is estimated at $400 million. sometime next year. signing of the Black Sea Fleet agreement resolving many strategic, political and Other agreements include $2.8 million, Foreign Affairs Minister Udovenko, before November 15. ethnic issues that have held up or de- financed by the Canadian International explaining how the business climate in railed the process for the last four years. The city of Sevastopol seems to finally Development Agency (CIDA), for the Ukraine has developed, said that what However, even as Messrs. Durdynets have accepted the idea of two fleets in its implementation of a $200 million program Ukraine has done in five years in develop- and Serov were making their announce- port. On October 31, Sevastopol Mayor funded by the World Bank to modernize ing an infrastructure for business is just ment, news sources were saying the discus- Viktor Semenov told Interfax-Ukraine that hydroelectric plants that is being coordi- short of miraculous. “We are a young sions, few details of which have been the signing of an agreement on the Black nated by Hydro-Quebec International, as country that had to develop everything announced, were stalled on the issue of Sea Fleet will contribute to an improve- well as $ 7.5 million in technical assistance from point zero. We had no banking sys- who is to receive what docks in Sevastopol. ment of the city’s economic situation. He to increase security and develop an inspec- tem or any free market structures. We have Interfax and Vseukraiinski Viedomosti also criticized Russia’s Duma for “not real- tion licensing system for the Chornobyl come a long way. I cannot name another quoted Minister Serov as saying, “The izing the complexity of the situation.” He nuclear power plant. His entourage includ- country that has developed economic, negotiations were drawn out and strenu- said separate bases would provide income ed representatives of 60 leading Canadian ous. We have a number of unsettled for the city from both Russia and Ukraine. companies. (Continued on page 15) Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies marks 20th anniversary Husar comments by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj Toronto Press Bureau on his new role EDMONTON — In early October, the University of by Oksana Kolinchenko Alberta-based Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies cele- and Roman Woronowycz brated its 20th anniversary, and its growing reputation as the LVIV — Bishop Lubomyr Husar pre-eminent Ukrainian academic body in the diaspora. made it clear on October 22 that his new On October 5, the CIUS’s contributions were noted by position as auxiliary bishop to the head Ukraine’s envoy to Canada and by the institution’s current of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, director, at the Ukrainian-owned Chateaux Louis Hotel and although giving him extraordinary pow- Conference Center on Edmonton’s outskirts. ers, does not in any way put him in a Ukraine’s Ambassador to Canada Volodymyr Furkalo was position closer to the title of major arch- keynote speaker during a special luncheon in honor of the bishop of the Church. CIUS, and he brought greetings from Ukrainian President As Bishop Husar stated at a press con- Leonid Kuchma, by way of reading the section of the chief ference after the closing of the Synod of executive’s Independence Day address directed to the Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Ukrainian diaspora. Church, “The responsibilities that I have The envoy commended the institution’s members for received are accorded for as long as [the being at the forefront of an effort to preserve Ukraine’s cul- major archbishop] wishes and as long as tural heritage and historical record. He said the fact that they are needed. It is not that I have been Ukraine’s fifth anniversary of independence and the CIUS’s given power as if to a new administration.” jubilee year coincide is significant, because of the work of its Bishop Husar was appointed on scholars “to help my country reclaim its concealed history.” October 14 as Major Archbishop Ambassador Furkalo also thanked CIUS Director Dr. Myroslav Lubachivsky’s auxiliary with Zenon Kohut for his reply (forwarded to the Ukrainian extraordinary powers. They include the Mission in Ottawa) to the September 9 “Tinderbox” article in ability to “call synods, preside over them Forbes magazine. and approve their decisions,” which U.S. The CIUS director’s own keynote address, delivered at the Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk explained to 20th anniversary banquet, was introduced by the University of The Weekly the day after the announce- Ambassador Volodymyr Furkalo greets the Canadian (Continued on page 12) Institute of Ukrainian Studies on its 20th anniversary. (Continued on page 15) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1996 No. 44 NEWS ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Crimea: Ukraine’s Sicily Mejlis comments on Duma’s claim to form another Church. The synod also by Taras Kuzio “biznes” worlds. voted to bar another hierarch, Bishop Ihor SYMFEROPIL — The Crimean Tatar of Kharkiv and Poltava, from the UAOC. The irony is that pro-Russian factions Mejlis (assembly) claimed that the Russian On October 9 the Crimean Verkhovna within the Crimean Parliament, who have Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Rada voted 74-2 to dismiss its chairman, Duma’s October 24 appeal for Sevastopol Orthodox Church — Kyiv Patriarchate close ties to Russian organized crime, is a territorial claim on Ukraine, Radio Yevhen Supruniuk, and then voted 59-26 which uses the peninsula as a stepping- said the split within the UAOC is bound to to replace him with Vasyl Kyseliov. Ukraine reported. The Presidium of the lead to its demise. (OMRI Daily Digest) stone to the offshore island of Cyprus, Mejlis urged President Leonid Kuchma to Mr. Supruniuk was in the hospital dur- organized an “Anti-Crime Opposition” to ing the vote following a mysterious, and implement Article 17 of the Ukrainian Morningstar urges halt to corruption obtain populist support against Mr. Constitution, which prohibits deployment still unresolved, kidnapping. While in the Supruniuk. KYIV — Ambassador Richard hospital his post was temporarily held by of foreign military bases on Ukrainian terri- There are also two other alarming tory. Meanwhile, Crimean Communists Morningstar told a press conference in Kyiv Refat Chubarov, leader of the Tatar par- trends.
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