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Plenum. Sitting Patriarch Filaret and UNWLA President Iryna Kurowyckyj Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, which became member of the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council in 2000. It was a great honor and privilege to be part of the enormous gathering in Kyiv and to participate in a celebration that was both gratifying and significant. For despite continuing financial and ideological difficulties, Ukraine has proved strong enough and resilient enough to remain independent for a full decade. In this article, I will share with you my thoughts and observations from the unforgettable events. Upon arriving at Boryspil Airport, delegates from the Diaspora to the Third World Forum of Ukrainians, were welcomed with flowers, helped with their baggage, and then led through customs. Jaroslawa Rubel (former member of the UNWLA Executive Committee and now President of World Plast) and I were met by Atena Pashko, Honorary President of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of Ukraine; Lilia Hryhorovych, President of Ukrainian National Women’s League of Ukraine; and the organization’s Vice-president, Myroslava Fedak. We were presented with bouquets of flowers. The personal attention and special courtesy prompted a festive atmosphere and heightened our anticipation of events to come. From the airport, we rode through the streets of Kyiv, which were decorated with signs welcoming delegates to the Third World Forum. Ukrainian flags flew everywhere. It was a great feeling to be part of this wonderful festivity. The Ukrainian government picked up the tab for the delegates to the Forum. This included a three-day stay at a hotel, food, transportation from hotels to the meetings, concerts, and other celebration venues, and the expense of holding the Forum. I would like to express my appreciation to President Leonid Kuchma and Ukrainian government for their generosity. Thanks are also due UWCC President Mykhajlo Horyn and the special committee which was formed to organize this event. It was a mammoth job. The registration was conducted in a very unusual way. We had to wait in different lines for different things and that took too much of our time and prevented us from attending some of the workshops. I participated in a Women’s Organizations workshop where I talked about how we in New York, as representatives of non governmental organizations to United Nations, can cooperate with organizations that have consultative status at the UN, for example, in preparing joint statements or workshops. On August 18, buses picked the delegates up at the hotel to take them to the monuments of Taras Shevchenko and Mykhailo Hrushevsky where government leaders, according to our programs, were to lay flowers honoring Ukraine’s most beloved poet and most revered historian. The leaders, unfortunately, never showed up and this created a strange and somewhat uncomfortable situation. The opening of the Third World Forum was held at the Ukrainian Palace of Culture. On the stage, a colorful emblem and theme for the Forum was magnificently placed as a backdrop. Once the Presidium of the Third World Forum of Ukrainians was seated, the Forum was opened with a prayer. There were 600 delegates and approximately 1000 guests. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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