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The Ukrainian Weekly 2005, No.38 www.ukrweekly.com INSIDE: • Analyses of the latest developments in Ukraine — pages 2-3. • Celebrations of Ukrainian Independence Day — pages 10-11. • Youth Leadership Program conducted in Ukraine — page 13. Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc., a fraternal non-profit association Vol. LXXIII HE No.KRAINIAN 38 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2005 EEKLY$1/$2 in Ukraine ReliefT officials outragedU at U.N. report Yushchenko promisesW new government downplaying Chornobyl disaster’s toll focused on economic stability, pragmatism by Andrew Nynka letter submitted to The New York Times. The U.N. report was published by NEW YORK – Nearly two decades Chernobyl Forum and released on after the nuclear disaster at Chornobyl September 5 during a meeting of the spewed a lethal cloud of radiation over forum at the International Atomic Energy Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, a United Agency’s headquarters in Vienna. Nations report now says the actual death The forum, created in 2003 to address toll from the accident is far less than had the nuclear fallout from the 1986 Chornobyl been previously reported. disaster, comprises eight U.N. agencies – Outraged by the report, longtime including the International Atomic Energy Chornobyl aid workers and relief organi- Agency (IAEA) and the World Health zations have since strongly criticized the Organization (WHO) – and the govern- 600-page document, questioning the cred- ments of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. ibility and motivation of its authors, and The report said that people who lived calling its conclusions doubtful at best. in contaminated territories have “died of The report, titled “Chernobyl’s [sic] diverse natural causes that cannot be Legacy: Health, Environmental and attributed to radiation. However, wide- Socio-Economic Impacts,” concluded that spread expectations of ill health and a only several thousand people could poten- tendency to attribute all health problems tially die of radiation exposure from the to exposure to radiation have led local accident, and that fewer than 50 deaths residents to assume that Chernobyl-relat- can be directly attributed to the disaster. ed fatalities were much higher.” Zenon Zawada “Claims have been made that tens or Critics have voiced outrage recently President Viktor Yushchenko speaks with Western journalists at a September 13 even hundreds of thousands of persons over such statements, as well as strong press briefing at the Presidential Secretariat building. have died as a result of the accident,” the skepticism of the IAEA’s role in the report says. “These claims are exaggerat- report. They argue that the IAEA, a U.N. by Zenon Zawada are his new priorities. ed: the total number of people that could agency tasked with promoting and over- have died or could die in the future due Kyiv Press Bureau In the two press conferences he held seeing nuclear power throughout the since firing his Cabinet on September 8, to Chernobyl-originated exposure over world, influenced the report. KYIV – As he forms his new Cabinet the lifetime of emergency workers and reform was a word seldom mentioned. The report concluded that “the largest of Ministers, Ukrainian President Viktor “I told a colleague in Parliament, ‘Let’s residents of most contaminated areas is public health problem unleashed by the Yushchenko has announced that econom- estimated to be around 4,000.” accident,” rather than death or various ic stability and government pragmatism (Continued on page 9) That information, as well as other radiation related illnesses, is “the mental parts of the report, has drawn strong criti- health impact.” cism from Chornobyl relief organiza- Dr. Fred Mettler, an expert with the tions. “The notion that the deaths of only World Health Organization and a member Tymoshenko declares separate path 4,000 of these workers and downwinders of the team of more than 100 international will be attributable to the accident is scientists who conducted research for and dubious at best,” said Alexander Kuzma, wrote the report, said stories from the press in Ukraine’s 2006 parliamentary elections executive director of the Children of by Zenon Zawada and Yana Sedova Tymoshenko declared she would blaze a Chornobyl Relief Fund, in the draft of a (Continued on page 9) Kyiv Press Bureau path that is parallel, yet separate from that of President Viktor Yushchenko, toward KYIV – After her sudden firing last the March 31 parliamentary election. week, former Prime Minister Yulia Ms. Tymoshenko said she does not want to align with Our Ukraine People’s Diaspora leaders note growth Union because of the corruption that the president’s entourage is mired in. “It does not mean we are at war,” she of creditby Zenon Zawada unions ofin 20 percent Ukraine belonging to it, there would told a national television audience on Kyiv Press Bureau be a majority,” Mr. Kish said. September 9. “But we have two different North American credit union leaders teams, two very different sets of people. I KYIV – Credit unions in Ukraine are met with their Ukrainian counterparts at will not go to the elections together with the rapidly growing their membership but the National University of Kyiv Mohyla people who have so discredited Ukraine.” still require more support and strengthen- Academy August 22 at an interim confer- In declaring her independence, Ms. ing from the Ukrainian diaspora. ence aimed at re-establishing relations Tymoshenko also revealed her determi- Currently, there are 711 credit unions after the Orange Revolution, said Bohdan nation to reclaim the prime minister’s with more than 942,000 Ukrainian mem- Kekish, president of the Ukrainian World position. bers, a 20 percent increase during the Cooperative Council (UWCC). She expressed full confidence in her first half of 2005, according to Walter North American credit unions played ability to harness enough votes to give Kish, field manager of the Ukrainian an active role in the Orange Revolution. her party or faction the most members in Credit Union Strengthening Project. Canadian credit unions raised more the Verkhovna Rada’s next session. A Their assets total more than $277 million. than $1.5 million to support the faction may be a coalition of political About 20 percent of these credit Revolution, said Olha Zawerucha parties or individuals. unions belong to the National Swyntuch, president of the Council of Under the constitutional changes that Association of Credit Unions in Ukraine Ukrainian Credit Unions in Canada take effect January 1, the party or faction (NACUU). (CUCUC). gaining the most parliamentary seats will “We have been working with NACUU “To support the Orange Revolution, AP/Efrem Lukatsky nominate the prime minister. Currently, for almost a year and we will continue to those people who gave their time to stand Yulia Tymoshenko during an interview the president does that. work to strengthen it to make it a more with the Associated Press on representative organization so that instead (Continued on page 8) September 12. (Continued on page 23) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2005 No. 38 ANALYSIS NEWSBRIEFSNEWSBRIEFS Yushchenko finally acts Yushchenko orders investigation Yekhanurov candidacy submitted to Rada KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko KYIV – President Viktor Yushchenko to clean up his government instructed the Security Service of Ukraine has submitted the candidacy of Yurii by Taras Kuzio “destabilization” while scrambling to (SBU) on September 12 to investigate Yekhanurov for the Verkhovna Rada’s Eurasia Daily Monitor find out more than what they had read on within the next 10 days the allegations of approval as the head of a new Cabinet of the morning wires. corruption in the presidential entourage that Ministers, Interfax Ukraine reported on On September 8 President Viktor Russia’s President Vladimir Putin were voiced earlier this month by former September 13, quoting the presidential Yushchenko fired his government and appeared overjoyed at the crisis (The presidential chief of staff Oleksander press service. Mr. Yushchenko appointed removed top officials accused of corrup- Guardian, September 6). He repeated Mr. Zinchenko, Interfax-Ukraine and UNIAN Mr. Yekhanurov, chairman of the tion. Oleksander Zinchenko, the former Zinchenko’s accusations of corruption, reported. Mr. Yushchenko gave this instruc- Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Administration, as head of the Presidential Secretariat, had tion while introducing new SBU Chief Ihor acting prime minister on September 8, leveled the startling corruption charges Drizhchanyi. Mr. Drizhchanyi replaced shortly after the dismissal of Yulia four days earlier, after resigning on Oleksander Turchynov of the Yulia Tymoshenko. Mr. Yekhanurov said that his September 2 (see Eurasia Daily Monitor, By acting decisively Tymoshenko Bloc, who tendered his resig- first task is to ensure that “government September 8). to remove officials nation on September 8 when President members continue their work, and there The crisis that engulfed Mr. Yushchenko sacked Prime Minister Yulia should be stability,” Interfax reported, cit- Yushchenko’s team after Mr. accused of corrup- Tymoshenko and her Cabinet. According to ing his press secretary. “Therefore, my goal Zinchenko’s accusations was no ordinary Mr. Yushchenko, Mr. Turchynov’s per- now is to set up a government and start political crisis. Indeed, Socialist Party tion, Yushchenko has formance was highly unsatisfactory. “[The working efficiently.” Mr. Yekhanurov was leader Oleksander Moroz described it as SBU] proved unable to
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