On the Day of Remembrance of the Holodomor Victims in Ukraine of 1932-1933, President Petro Poroshenko took part in the measures on commemoration of the innocent casualties of those dreadful years.
In the course of the ceremony of honoring the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko stressed the importance for our descendants “to always know that it wasn’t just an artificial famine, but a thoroughly planned Holodomor”.
“It is a genocide by all indications as defined in the UN Convention of December 9, 1948. To make it clear for all continents that not recognizing the Holodomor is as immoral as denying the Holocaust,” Petro Poroshenko said, adding: “I think it is time for ourselves to pass a law on the responsibility for not recognizing these two unprecedentedly horrible tragedies”.
The president reminded that 14 countries at the parliamentary level also recognized the Holodomor as a genocide, and Ukrainian diplomacy continues to tell the truth to the peoples of the world. He said that in March 2017, the Portuguese Assembly identified the Holodomor as a genocide, and in early November the US Congress also presented a draft resolution.
“We thank our American friends and expect an effective vote in the Capitol Hill, where a memorial to the victims of the Holodomor Genocide has been established. And such monuments or memorials exist in fifteen countries of the world,” Petro Poroshenko stressed.
The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, First Deputy Head of the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Gerashchenko, Head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis Refat Chubarov, clergy, public figures, diplomats, government officials and people’s deputies.
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