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INSIDE:• Eastern Catholics and Orthodox-Catholic dialogue — page 3. • Sailing away on the Batkivschyna — page 12. • Slavutych participates in International Naval Review — page 13. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXVIII HE KRAINIANNo. 29 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2000 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs INTERVIEW:T UMykhailo Horyn W Mykola Zhulynskyi visits North America speaks on future role of UWCC by Irene Jarosewich III, who came aboard the Ukrainian ship by Roman Woronowycz has been caused by a whole series of cir- with an official visit. Kyiv Press Bureau cumstances. It is not only the indifferent NEW YORK – Visiting four cities in Also in New York, Dr. Zhulynskyi met attitude of community and political seven days, Mykola Zhulynskyi, Ukraine’s with a small group of people at the The following is an edited interview activists and leaders to the problems vice prime minister for humanitarian Consulate General of Ukraine and that with Mykhailo Horyn, who was elected associated with maintaining a dialogue affairs, traveled to Washington, evening spoke before a community gather- president of the Ukrainian World with the diaspora, it is also caused by the Philadelphia, New York and Toronto on ing at the Ukrainian National Home. Coordinating Council (UWCC) on May economic situation in Ukraine, which June 30 - July 7 for meetings with govern- In Toronto on July 6-7, Dr. Zhulynskyi 20 in Kyiv. He succeeded Ivan Drach, makes it difficult to aportion something ment officials and Ukrainian American and also met with members of the Ukrainian who was UWCC president in the first for cooperation with the diaspora. Ukrainian Canadian representatives and community, as well as with Canadian gov- eight years of its existence, during which I am not saying that this is the only communities. ernment officials, representatives of the time the organization was often criticized reason. Another reason that there is no Traveling with the vice prime minister Ukrainian World Congress and Ukrainian for its lack of effectiveness. funding for work with the diaspora is was his wife, Halyna Zhulynskyi, head of Canadian Congress, officials from the Mr. Horyn, a former political prisoner because government structures have the largest credit union association in Ukrainian Embassy and Consulate, and and a founder of Rukh – the Popular failed to give the appropriate attention to Ukraine, who was in the United States to members of the board of directors of the Movement for Perebudova in 1989, has cooperation with the diaspora. participate in the Ukrainian National Credit Ukrainian Canadian Research and been a national deputy in Ukraine’s The UWCC lives on the membership Union Association’s annual meeting on Documentation Center. Verkhovna Rada and the leader of the dues of communities that are part of the June 29-July 1 in Philadelphia. In his presentation before the communi- Ukrainian Republican Party. UWCC. But if we don’t find real means Officially a guest of the Toronto-based ty in New York, which was organized by The interview was conducted on June to develop activities so that the leader- Ukrainian World Congress, Dr. Zhulynskyi the Ukrainian Congress Committee of 26 at the office of The Ukrainian ship of the UWCC can maintain contacts met with U.S. legislators in Washington on America (UCCA) and the Ukrainian Weekly’s Kyiv Bureau. with the large communities of, let’s say, June 30 and with Ukrainian Embassy offi- American Coordinating Council (UACC), cials, was the featured speaker on July 1 at PART I Central Asia, Siberia and Russia – not Dr. Zhulynskyi, who was on his fifth trip to just the West – then we will be coordinat- a banquet in Philadelphia held in conjunc- the United States, noted his feelings of Do you think the work of the ing things of which we know nothing. tion with the Ukrainian Diaspora deep gratitude to America for its support UWCC has been satisfactory to date? I hope that somehow we can find the Olympiad, and in New York on July 5 met for Ukraine in general and, in particular, for How would you grade its work? funds that will give us the possibility to with the officers and crew of the Ukrainian being a generous second homeland to his help Ukrainian communities abroad and naval ship Slavutych, which was docked in father (Dr. Zhulynskyi’s father, now 93, has This is a rhetorical question, in other to finance contacts with those communi- New York harbor after participating in the lived in upstate New York for many years). words it needs no answer. Of course, I ties. In this respect [our job] is a search July 4 International Naval Review 2000. “I also feel an enormous sense of respon- absolutely believe that work of the for financing. Our communities do Dr. Zhulynskyi also dined aboard the ship sibility before the diaspora,” he noted, “that UWCC to date is not only weak, but with a U.S. delegation, headed by Jerry has worked so long and hard for a success- completely unsatisfactory. The situation (Continued on page 20) MacArthur Hultin, undersecretary of the Navy, and Rear Admiral Henry G. Ulrich (Continued on page 8) Slavutych to bring CCRF’s humanitarian aid cargo to Sevastopol by Roma Hadzewycz BROOKLYN, N.Y.– Taking advantage of a visit to New York by the staff ship of the Ukrainian navy, the Slavutych, the New Jersey-based Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund on Friday, July 7, delivered five skids full of humanitarian aid destined for the ship’s home port of Sevastopol, Ukraine. The Slavutych was in New York harbor to participate in the International Naval Review 2000, held on July 4 as a prelude to Operation Sail 2000. The Kamchatka class com- mand and control ship was the only military ship from Eastern Europe to participate in the naval review. According to Cmdr. Volodymyr V. Leschenko, deputy to the Slavutych’s commanding officer, the ship’s partici- pation was arranged on the level of government-to-govern- ment contacts involving the foreign affairs and defense ministers of Ukraine and their U.S. counterparts. A press conference announcing the humanitarian aid shipment was held on the dock at Brooklyn’s Port Authority Pier 7 next to the naval vessel. The 1.8-ton cargo includes antibiotics, intravenous fluids and starter kits, sur- gical needles and syringes, gowns, analgesics and sterile gloves provided by the Catholic Medical Mission Board. Alexander Kuzma, executive director of the CCRF, noted that the supplies will be used for emergency service and to meet the health care needs of the people of Roma Hadzewycz Sevastopol. Valued at over $85,000, the medical supplies are to be On the dock next to the Slavutych, Alex Kuzma of the CCRF announces the organization’s latest humanitari- shipped to the naval hospital in Sevastopol. The CCRF an aid shipment. To the right of Mr. Kuzma are Cmdr. Volodymyr V. Leschenko, Nadia Matkiwsky, a founder and board member of the CCRF, and Tanya Fesenko Vena, CCRF financial director. (Continued on page 8) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2000 No. 29 INSINSIIGHTGHT ININTTOO THE THE NEWSNEWS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS BY DAVID MARPLES Kuchma meets with Schroeder Communists protest land privatization LEIPZIG, Germany – Ukrainian KYIV – Despite Communist opposi- President Leonid Kuchma flew to Leipzig tion, the Verkhovna Rada voted 229 to 32 on July 11 to meet with German to pass in the first reading a bill that opens Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder for discus- the way to private ownership of land, Chornobyl: The end of the saga sions about post- Chornobyl power produc- Reuters reported on July 6. Fist fights tion in Ukraine and other bilateral issues, broke out after the vote, and the following Interfax-Ukraine reported. Germany is day dozens of Communist and leftist legis- or beginning of a new one? playing a key role in an upcoming decision lators walked out of the Parliament, EDMONTON – President Bill Clinton’s 1986-1989, much of the damage from by the European Bank for Reconstruction demanding a strict probe into whether brief stopover in Kyiv at the end of his radioactive fallout was done. Ironically, and Development about a $1.5 billion loan some deputies whose votes were counted European tour ostensibly has brought a Chornobyl is probably the safest of the to Kyiv to complete the construction of had been present, as the law requires. major result: the promise of the closure of graphite-moderated reactors operating in nuclear power stations at Rivne and the Chornobyl nuclear power station, more Meanwhile, some 4,000 pensioners in the former Soviet Union today – the others Khmelnytskyi, ITAR-TASS reported. Dnipropetrovsk marched to protest an than 14 years after the world’s worst indus- are in Russia at Kursk and Smolensk, and at (RFE/RL Newsline) trial accident. On December 15, 1999, the International Monetary Fund plan that Ignalina in Lithuania and are largely would double their utility bills, the DPA third reactor, the only one that is opera- ignored by international media – but the Inflation rises in Ukraine tional, will reportedly be decommissioned. press service reported on July 7. (RFE/RL technology is obsolete and the work force KYIV – The Ministry of the Economy Newsline) The world is rejoicing at this news, which demoralized. Nuclear workers went on signals an end to the drama of Chornobyl. told Interfax on July 10 that inflation in strike several times in the past two years to Ukraine will total 25 to 29 percent in 2000, Kyiv seeks talks on division of Soviet assets Or does it? demand wages that were months in arrears.