Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc.. a fraternal non-profit association rainian Weekly vol. LVIII No. 47 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25,1990 50 cents Ukraine, Baltic states and Armenia Patriarch Mstyslav enthroned send representatives to Paris summit Historic services held at St Sophia Cathedral JERSEY C1TY, N.J. - Representa– of an urgent meeting, and later would SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - witness the service from the knaveof the tives of Ukraine, the Baltic states and not let them re-enter the hall. French His Holiness Mstyslav was enthroned church, which was filled with believers. Armenia sent their own representatives Foreign Minister Roland Dumas told as patriarch of Kiev and all Ukraine on Among the dignitaries attending the to the Paris summit of the Conference the Baits they were being expelled Sunday, November 18,in Kiev, reported ceremony were chairman of the Council on Security and Cooperation in "because the Soviet delegation was the metropolitan's chancery of the for Religious Affairs of the Ukrainian Europe meeting in Paris on November totally against their participation in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the SSR, Mykola Kolesnyk, deputies to the 19-21. conference," reported RFE^RL. U.S.A. based here. Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, The representatives traveled to the As planned, the solemnities were held Mykhailo Horyn, Serhiy Holovaty, meeting as unofficial delegations and The Ukrainian delegation consisted of in St. Sophia Cathedral, which local Mykola Porovsky and vasyl Cher– observers. three people's deputies: Dmytro Pavly– authorities handed over to the believers voniy, deputy to the Supreme Soviet of However, Baltic representatives, who chko, chairman, Bohdan Horyn, co- of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Ortho– the USSR, Yuri Sorochyk, as well as had arrived in Paris as observers on chairman, and ivan Drach, a member, dox Church for that day. The use of the other notables, whose names have, as of official invitations from the host coun– of the Ukrainian Parliament's Commit– church was also sanctioned by the now, not been received by the Metropo– try, were expelled from the conference tee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Drach also president of the Supreme Soviet of the litan's Chancery. on November 19, shortly after the is president of the Popular Movement Ukrainian SSR, Leonid Kravchuk, and St. Sophia Square and its side streets, opening session reported Radio Free of Ukraine, or Rukh. Prime Minister vitold Fokin. despite cold weather and rain, were The three-person delegation arrived Europe^ Radio Liberty. The solemnities began with an all- filled with tens of thousands of people. Liberty. in Paris on November 18 with the Among the most moving parts of the intention of representing the interests of night vigil which members of the hie– Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian rarchy of the UAOC celebrated at St. ceremony was the presentation of Ukraine, which declared its state sove– Metropolitan Petro Mohyla's 17th representatives all were issued guest reignty on July 16. The delegation also Andrew's Cathedral on the eve of the passes, but France decided to rescind enthronement. Metropolitan loann of century archpastoral staff (posokh) to pressed the republic's desire to become a Patriarch Mstyslav. The day's program its invitation, in response to pres– full participant in the CSCE process. Lviv and Galicia addressed the sure from the Soviet delegation. congregation after the service, in his ended with a grand banquet at the Hotel French officials asked the Baits to The official Soviet delegation had Kiev, followed by a concert at the Kiev attempted to incorporate the foreign homily, the metropolitan spoke of how leave the conference hall on the pretext the significance of the upcoming event Opera, both held in the newly en- ministers of the Baltic states and U– throned patriarch's honor. kraine in its official representation, must be perceived by Patriarch Msty– slav emotionally, remarking that His Monday, November 19, saw the 1NS1DE: however, the four republics rejected the convening of the first meeting of the offer, considering it a ploy by Moscow Holiness had been consecrated to the Ш News analysis: the developing episcopacy in the church in which they Patriarch Council during which discus– new role of the Conference on to assert its control over sovereign and sion focused on the steps to be taken to independent republics. now stood almost 50 years before. The Security and Cooperation in vigil service preceeding the first patriar– secure the continued growth of the The Ukrainian representatives said Europe — page 3. chal enthronement in the history of the UAOC in Ukraine. Also on the meet– that Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard UAOC was described by Metropolitan ing's agenda was the election of a charge в Greens of Ukraine establish Shevardnadze had refused their request d'affairs for the Kievan Patriarchate contacts with Greens in North loann as "Sviat vechir"—a "Christmas to send a separate Ukrainian delega– Eve" for the Ukrainian people. who would oversee its operations during America — page 4. tion to the CSCE meeting. the periods of the patriarch's absence. Ф Reborn Ukrainian youth "After Russia and Germany, we are On Sunday, November 18, thesolem– Elected to this office was Antony, organization Plast holds its first the biggest entity in all of Europe. We nities culminated with the celebration of archbishop of Rivne and Ostrih. national conference in U– have a separate delegation in the United an archpastoral divine liturgy at St. Planned for Tuesday was a meeting kraine — page 5. Nations. We have a right to our own Sophia Cathedral. Presiding over the between Patriarch Mstyslav and Mr.' t Exclusive interview with representation (in the CSCE)," Mr. service was Patriarch Mstyslav, who Kolesnyk, chairman of the Coun– leaders of student hunger strike, Pavlychko was quoted as saying in the was assisted by all the members of the cil for Religious Affairs of the Ukrai– plus photos of this milestone Washington Post. hierarchy of the UAOC in Ukraine, as nian SSR. On Wednesday, Patriarch event of the year 1990 in U– "Frankly, we understand that this is well as by Archbishop Constantine and Mstyslav was expected to travel to Bishop Antony, who had travelled to kraihe — centerfbld. not going to make us independent Chernihiv, where he was to deliver overnight, but the point is that we must Kiev from the United States. medical supplies, which the Ukrainian assert our aspirations on the world Also concelebating were some 40 Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. do– stage," Mr. Horyn said. "Step by step priests, while over 200 clerics were, nated to benefit the victims of Chor– Ukraine intends to become a genuine because of limited space, forced to nobyl. presence in the world." Mr. Horyn also was cited in the Washington Post as reporting that in a Stepan Khmara is arrested private meeting,Mr. Shevardnadze had KlEv - Militiamen, accompanied continuing a hunger strike begun on told him that neither the USSR nor by unknown persons in civilian clothing, November 14 by members of the other member-states would be prepared entered the building of the Ukrainian National Council in the Parliament's to allow Ukraine to participate in the SSR Supreme Soviet here late at night session hall, when the Comnmunist 34-nation summit. He added that the on November 17 and arrested Stepan Bloc in Parliament voted to strip Mr. United States especially is "reluctant to Khmara, the deputy from Chervono– Khmara of his immunity as a people's embarrass" Soviet President Mikhail hrad, Lviv Oblast, accused of taking deputy. Gorbachev. part in an alleged November 7 assault The vice-chairman of the Ukrainian on a policeman, reported the Respublica Republican Party is accused of Appeal from Ukraine's president news service (UN1AR) and the U– assaulting an officer of the Ministry of krainian Press Agency (UPA). internal Affairs on November 7 after in an appeal to the participants of the Mr. Khmara was apprehended at the man, dressed in civilian clothes, Paris summit, Leonid Kravchuk, chair- 10:15 p.m. in the presence of four other apparently struck a woman. Witnesses man of the Ukrainian SSR Supreme parliamentarians from the democratic told lawyers from the Popular Move– Soviet, had sought support for U– National Council, Levko Horokhivsky, ment of Ukraine, Rukh, that a woman kraine's participation in the CSCE Bohdan Rebryk, ihor Derkach and approached Mr. Khmara that day in a (Continued on page 3) Yolodymyr Kolinets. The deputies were (Continued on page 11) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25,1990 - No. 47 At the CSCE summit in Paris Statement by Ukrainian deputies Newsbriefs Following is the full text of а Nations, party to post-war peace from Ukraine statement to the Paris summit of the treaties in Europe should take its Conference and Security and Coope– rightful and equal place in all-Euro– ration in Europe signed by three pean process. 9 MUN1CH - Should a newly pro- Zakhidnyi Kuryer (Western Courier), people's deputies to the Ukrainian in the name of tbe Popular Move– posed union treaty become implement– in its October 13 issue, reported that a SSR Supreme Soviet, Dmytro Pav– ment, in other words,on behalf of the ed, the USSR would become the USR: note with the words "Revenge for lychko, chairman, and Bohdan opposition in the Parliament of the Union of Sovereign Republics. Lenin. Pamiat," was found at the crime Horyn, deputy chairman, of the Ukraine and on our own behalf, we According to a summary of the draft, site and that the head of criminal Parliament's Foreign Affairs Com– declare;' carried by AFP on November 15, all the investigations, v. Levynets, considers mittee; and ivan Drach, a member of The official delegation of Ukraine powers advocated by President Mikhail the incident a terrorist attack.