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Holodomor in Ukraine not put on UN General Assembly agenda
UNITED NATIONS, July 12 (Itar-Tass) - The U.N. General Assembly has decided against putting on its agenda the issue of the Holodomor (famine) in Ukraine.
Ukraine's delegation earlier came out with the proposal to includethat issue as an additional item on the agenda.
The Holodomor was the famine that took place in Soviet Ukraine during the 1932-1933 agricultural season. At that time, the famine also took place in other regions of the then USSR. The Holodomor ravaged the rural population of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and is considered one of the greatest national catastrophes of the Ukrainian nation in the modern history.
Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said Russia was against such presentation of the problem, as it believes it is historically, and thus politically, incorrectly. He said mass famine in the Soviet Union in the 1930s is a tragic page in the common history of USSR peoples.
Famine hit not only Ukraine, but also other regions of the Soviet Union, in particular southern Belarus, the Volga region, the Centralregion, Cossack regions of Don and Kuban as well as the North Caucasus, where famine began in 1931, Northern Kazakhstan, Southern Urals and West Siberia, he stressed.
Russia reveres the memory of the victims in the tragic events of the 1930s in the Soviet Union. That is why, Churkin said, Russia would be ready to consider the possibility to make a joint statement with other interested states, which would objectively assess that sad page in the history of USSR.
Focusing on Ukraine's offer, Churkin stressed that Russia believes it is incorrectly as regards the memory of hundreds of thousands of people, who died of hunger in other republics and regions of the former USSR, to raise that issue in the United Nations in the context of only one region.
Ukraine's delegation earlier came out with the proposal to includethat issue as an additional item on the agenda.
The Holodomor was the famine that took place in Soviet Ukraine during the 1932-1933 agricultural season. At that time, the famine also took place in other regions of the then USSR. The Holodomor ravaged the rural population of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and is considered one of the greatest national catastrophes of the Ukrainian nation in the modern history.
Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said Russia was against such presentation of the problem, as it believes it is historically, and thus politically, incorrectly. He said mass famine in the Soviet Union in the 1930s is a tragic page in the common history of USSR peoples.
Famine hit not only Ukraine, but also other regions of the Soviet Union, in particular southern Belarus, the Volga region, the Centralregion, Cossack regions of Don and Kuban as well as the North Caucasus, where famine began in 1931, Northern Kazakhstan, Southern Urals and West Siberia, he stressed.
Russia reveres the memory of the victims in the tragic events of the 1930s in the Soviet Union. That is why, Churkin said, Russia would be ready to consider the possibility to make a joint statement with other interested states, which would objectively assess that sad page in the history of USSR.
Focusing on Ukraine's offer, Churkin stressed that Russia believes it is incorrectly as regards the memory of hundreds of thousands of people, who died of hunger in other republics and regions of the former USSR, to raise that issue in the United Nations in the context of only one region.
