President Yushchenko hosts leaders of diaspora groups at his country home (08/27/06)

President Yushchenko hosts leaders of diaspora groups at his country home

KYIV - Viktor Yushchenko met on August 17 with leaders of the Ukrainian diaspora, who had come to Kyiv to take part in the fourth World Forum of Ukrainians. The meeting took place in the Yushchenko family home in the village of Novi Bezradychi, it was reported on the Official Website of the President of Ukraine.

The president said it was important to build closer ties with diaspora organizations. He added that Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Ministry was now using new approaches to cooperate with Ukrainians living abroad. He said a new concept of cooperation with diaspora Ukrainians had recently been approved.

Mr. Yushchenko then spelled out his vision of the current political situation and the Universal of National Unity that helped end last month's parliamentary crisis.

Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Minister Borys Tarasyuk, who was present at the meeting, told those present what his ministry was doing to reinforce bonds with Ukrainians abroad. He said that over 500 projects had been carried out in 40 countries of the world to help Ukrainian communities.

The meeting was attended by: Mykhailo Horyn, head of the Ukrainian Coordinating Council; Vasyl Duma, head of the Council of the Association of Russian Ukrainians and the Federal National Cultural Autonomy "Russia's Ukrainians"; Askold Lozynskyj, president of the Ukrainian World Congress; Michael Sawkiw, Jr., president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America; Mykola Sergiyenko, head of the Association of Kuban Ukrainians; Yaroslav Khortyani, president of the European Congress of Ukrainians; Ihor Likhovyi, Ukraine's culture minister; Dmytro Pavlychko, poet; Pavlo Movchan, Prosvita president; and Mykola Zhulynsky, head of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature.

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