1NS1DE: 9 Kharkiv residents speak their minds on elections - page 3. 9 Baiul, Petrenko steal the show - page 9. ^ Photo report on President Kravchuks visit to the U.S. - centerfold. THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY Published by the Ukrainian National Association inc., a fraternal non-profit association vol. LXII No. 11 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 13,1994 50 cents Kravchuk denies report of linkage Kravchuk and Clinton solidify new era of relations between nukes transfer, gas supply Ukraine secures S700 million in aid by Marta Kolomayets way of settling the problems that both Ukraine and Belarus have with Russia. "1 NEW YORK - President Leonid said 1 would have the United States Kravchuk denied reports which suggested explore two or three options to see if we that Ukraine would stop transporting its could find some way to avert an even nuclear warheads to Russia if the northern worse crisis," the president said. neighbor cut off Ukraine's natural gas "We have never terminated our talks supply. He spoke during a news confer– ence on Monday morning, March 7, with Russia on gas deliveries; they are wrapping up his official visit to the U.S.. ongoing. But it is not a problem of nego– tiations. Ukraine has no hard currency to "1 have never linked any of Ukraine's pay for its natural gas. We could have economic difficulties with the transfer of made money by selling our products to nuclear weapons. This was discussed at Russia, products such as mainline loco- the White House and at a press confer– motives, pipes, machinery, but this is not ence with President Clinton. We will con– possible because Russian companies can- tinue to fulfill our nuclear commitments," not pay; they have no hard currency he told reporters at the Plaza Hotel, locat– either. We also have a problem selling to ed on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. the West because we are not given any Mr. Kravchuk added that the first quotas to sell our products. So, its a trainload of 60 nuclear warheads was dead-end proposition currently," he said. already on its way to Russia; 1TAR- Ukraine owes Gazprom about 1.5 tril– TASS reported on March 6 that the cargo lion rubles (S900 million) and has cut had already arrived in Russia. supplies by a total of 130 million cubic As The Weekly was going to press, meters a day since last week, it had pre– Russia's gas giant, Gazprom, announced viously been pumping more than 200 it would suspend a gradual cut-off, pend– million cubic meters a day, supplying ing talks between Ukraine and Russia, Ukraine with 60 percent of its gas needs, scheduled to begin Thursday, March 10. Presidents Leonid Kravchuk and Bill Clinton shake hands after signing a series reported Reuters. of economic treaties. President Kravchuk underlined the seri– Turkmenistan, Ukraine's other main ous nature of the problem during his visit to supplier, cut off shipments on February by Khristina Lew Signaling the beginning of a new era the United States, discussing Ukraine's in U.S.-Ukrainian relations, President 20, because of non-payment on a debt of WASHINGTON - Ukrainian economic woes with President Bill Clinton. S700 million. Bill Clinton announced on March 4 dur– President Leonid Kravchuk, accompanied "1 told the president that the cutdown And, as President Kravchuk was ing a joint press conference at the White by a delegation that included Olympic of gas deliveries may lead to tensions in returning home to Kyyiv, Russian gov– House that the United States would gold medalists Oksana Baiul and viktor the economy and social cataclysms and ernment officials accused Ukraine of expand its assistance package to Ukraine Petrenko, arrived in the United States on that may, 1 repeat, may influence disar– siphoning up to 25 percent of Russian to S700 million through 1995. mament," he said. March 3 to seek U.S. assistance for Mr. Clinton said he would try to find a (Continued on page 20) Ukraine's beleaguered economy. Economic assistance in a departure from U.S. policy that centered almost exclusively on Ukraine's nuclear issue, the Ukrainian president's President opens second official visit to Washington on March 3-5 focused on bilateral economic Consulate General cooperation, bolstered by the signing of a Joint Statement on the Development of in New York City U.S.-Ukrainian Friendship and Partnership and treaties on Bilateral by Marta Kolomayets investment and Avoidance of Double Taxation. The two countries also negotiat– NEW YORK - Calling it "an event ed a Joint Statement on Economic and of great significance," President Leonid Commercial Cooperation and agreed to Kravchuk officially opened Ukraine's establish a special Bilateral Commission first Consulate General in North on Trade and investment, chaired by the America, located in New York's Turtle U.S. Department of Commerce and the Bay Gardens Historic District, on Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Economic Saturday afternoon, March 5, to the Relations. applause of scores of Ukrainian The United States also extended American community activists who Generalized System of Preference (GSP) made the idea a reality. status to Ukraine, which provides Ukraine "The fact that a Consulate General of duty-free access into the U.S. market for Ukraine opened in the largest American 4,400 products, pledged support for city shows that our country is beginning Ukraine's membership to the General to take on a key role in international rela– Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), tions," said Mr. Kravchuk, sharing a and promised to exercise leadership with– glass of champagne with Consul General in the Group of 7 industrial states and viktor Kryzhanivsky. international financial institutions to Roma Hadzewycz "Our Washington discussions with the mobilize additional aid to Ukraine. president and his administration, with "During our talks with President President Leonid Kravchuk snips a blue-and-yel!ow ribbon, officially inaugurating Ukraine's Consulate General in New York City. (Continued on page 9) (Continued on page 10) 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, MARCH 13,1994 No. 11 NEWS ANALYS1S: The state NEWSBB1EFS of Ukraine's Orthodox Church Fuel for warheads exchange begins message to his counterparts in the by Jaroslaw Martyniuk of administrative control of a Church and Commonwealth of independent States WASHINGTON; MOSCOW - The RFEfRL Research institute does not always reflect the real support (C1S), in which he stressed the impor– for a Church in terms of numbers of faith– first stage of the exchange between tance of gaining observer status for the CONCLUSION ful. The second approach considers the Russia and Ukraine of nuclear warheads organization at the United Nations. Mr. degree of public support that a Church for nuclear fuel has begun. On March 4, Kozyrev is trying to orchestrate an effort Another defection in the UOC-KP enjoys, based on some sort of head count during his joint press conference with his On the eve of the Orthodox Christmas to have the European Union and the or a poll of people who actually identify U.S. counterpart, President Leonid Conference on Security and Cooperation on January 5, of this year, five hierarchs with a Church. Using the second Kravchuk announced that the first trans- of the UOC-KP announced they were in Europe (CSCE) recognize the C1S as a approach, critics argue, fails to measure port carrying Ukrainian nuclear warheads regional organization. A further motive changing their allegiance to the UOC– the actual strength of a Church, because left for a dismantling site in Russia. Sixty MP. Stressing that they remain commit– behind this effort was suggested by an such factors as administrative control ІСВМ warheads were loaded on a train address delivered by Russian delegate ted to the idea of an autocephalous and shipped out. in Moscow, viadimir over Church property and the degree of viadimir Shustov at a February CSCE Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the bishops, Petrov, an official of Russia's Nuclear religious fervor are not taken into meeting in vienna. Mr. Shustov claimed led by Metropolitan Antoniy, accused Power Ministry, told reporters on March account. Because of the shortcomings of that Article 52 of the U.N. Charter Metropolitan Filaret, who is widely 2 that a shipment of nuclear fuel had been each approach, both are examined below. allowed regional organizations to take regarded as being the real power behind sent to the energy plant in Chornobyl six action to maintain peace and security, the patriarchal throne of the UOC-KP, of Number of eparchies days before. One hundred and twenty and that there is no need for Russia to abusing power and Church rules and of nuclear fuel elements manufactured at the All three Orthodox Church organiza– seek approval from the CSCE or any failing to secure canonical recognition of Elektrostal plant near Moscow left for tions in Ukraine have made claims as to other international organization. the UOC-KP from the ecumenical patri– Ukraine by rail. (Associated Press, 13 the number of eparchies and parishes (RFEFRL Daily Report) arch of Constantinople. under their jurisdiction. At the UOC-KP RFE7RL Daily Report) Defenders of the UOC-KP maintain that Synod of October 1993, Metropolitan Russia objects to troops in the Crimea Massandra deemed invalid by navy chief the true reason for the recent split is the Antoniy (before his defection to the UOC- thwarted personal ambition of Metropolitan MOSCOW - Russia's military MP) stated that the UOC-KP had 20 KYYiv - According to a March 7 Antoniy, who in 1993 did not win his bid newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, published eparchies, more than 2,000 parishes and item in the Financial Times, Admiral to be elected patriarch of the UOC-KP.