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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, СІЧЕНЬ 2017 WWW.UNWLA.ORG 17 UNWLA President Marianna Zajac and Prof Taras Hunczak at “Ukraine at 25: December 1 st Remembrance.” Calendar of Events As part of the UNWLA’s extended community activities, several of our representatives attended and par- ticipated in the following events: December 1. A Ukrainian Historical Encounters Series Special Event “Ukraine at 25: A December 1 st Remembrance” was held on the 25 th anniversary of a date when over 91% of Ukraine’s electorate voted in a national referendum to support Ukraine’s declaration of inde- pendence. The evening forum was held at the Shevchenko Scientific Society in New York City and brought together scholars, diplomats and eyewitnesses of the historic events that led to Ukraine’s renewed inde- pendence. As UNWLA president, I was invited to open the program by introducing Professor Taras Hunczak, a renowned historian and one of the eyewitnesses of this historic event. December 8. Annual commemoration of the Holodomor at the United Nations. Speakers included Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations; Ambassador Sarah Mendelson, U.S. Representative on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations; Ambassador Valery Kuchinsky, former ambassador of Ukraine to the United Na- tions; and Ayla Bakkalli, Representative of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis at the United Nations. The panel was moderated by Andrij Dobriansky, Ukrainian Coordinating Committee of the United States. Holodomor commemoration at the United Nations December 13. Roksolana Misilo, UNWLA Vice President of Public Relations, represented the organiza- tion at closed talks with Senator Menendez’s Washington Bureau Foreign Relations aide Sara Aitkin and Senior Advisor Zachary Rynar at Senator Menendez’s Newark, N.J., headquarters. Concern over possible removal of Russian sanctions by U.S. President-elect Trump, disre- gard for the Budapest memoran- dum, and concern over Ukrainian border violation were discussed. (Also participating in this discussion were Roma Lisovich and Yuriy Sym- chyk of the UNA, Myron Smorodsky of the Ukrainian American Lawyers Association, and Tamara Gallo of UCCA.) Ukrainian community representatives with Senator Menendez’s staff.
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