Kuchma offers congrats

KYIV - President Leonid Kuchma addressed a telegram of congratulations to the Ukrainian delegation participating in the Olympic Games in Atlanta, reported Interfax-Ukraine.

He addressed cordial greetings to the Olympic team and to wrestler Vyacheslav Oliynyk on the first gold medal to have been won at the Olympic Games.

"The official hoisting of the national flag of Ukraine, the sounds of the national anthem of Ukraine, which resounded for the whole world to hear, has filled the hearts of millions of our compatriots with pride for their state and its representatives at the highest forum of vigor and beauty," the telegram said.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, August 11, 1996, No. 32, Vol. LXIV

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