The first sitting of Holodomor Coordinating Council on preparing events relating to 75th anniversary of the Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine will take place in Kyiv today.
The participants of the meeting will be the President of Ukraine, representatives of the Parliament, government, Presidential secretariat, executive bodies, members of the organizational committee, representatives of public organizations, scientists, representatives of Ukrainian diaspora.
The subjects for discussion are as follows:
1. The draft of the Order "On Commemorating the 75th anniversary of Holodomor 1932-33 in Ukraine", in the future The Plan of Commemorating events for 2007-2008 which will be approved by the Organizational committee
2. Plans of Ukrainian and world public organizations concerning commemorating victims of genocide of Ukrainian people
agenda:
1. Speech of the President (15 minutes)
2. Speeches (5-7 minutes)
a. Ihor Yukhnovskiy - Head of the Institute of national memory - "Concerning commemorating events...
b. Mykola Zhulynskiy - Head of the National council on culture - "Concerning building the Memorial....
c. Volodymyr Ohryzko - Minister of Foreign Affairs - "Concerning international activities.....
d. Yuri Bohutskiy - Minister of Culture - "Concerning cultural events......
e. Stanislav Nikolayenko - Minister of Education - "Concerning educational events.....
f. Stefan Romaniw - Chair of International Committee - "Concerning events under International committee
g. Vasyl Vovkun - Producer - "Concerning organization of exhibitions and requiem tours....
h. Oleksiy Kopytko - Ukraina 3000 foundation- "Concerning plans of the foundation....
i. Oleksandr Feldman - People`s deputy - "Concerning discussion on Holodomor in Israel...
j. Valeriy Smoliy - Director of the Institute of History - "Concerning input of scientists....
The international attendees are Stefan Romaniw (Australia), Morgan Williams (USA), Michael Sawkiw (USA), Bohdan Futey (USA), Marta Kolomayets (USA), Orysia Sushko (Canada), Victor Pedenko (Canada), Yurij Klufas (Canada), Michael Hamalij.
This news was monitored by the Action Ukraine Monitoring Service for the Action Ukraine Report (AUR), Morgan Williams, SigmaBleyzer, Editor.
