Strasbourg, April 27 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's statement that it would be unfair to recognize the great famine of the 1930s as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people is another betrayal of Ukrainian interests for the sake of "cheap Russian gas" and a betrayal of the Ukrainians destroyed by dictators under the communist regime, the head of the shadow government, Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYT) MP and member of Ukraine's permanent delegation to the PACE, Serhiy Sobolev, has said.
"When the Council of Europe, which has always been a bastion of democracy, welcomes the a dictator who ordered the destruction of the Ukrainian parliament and the dispersal of peaceful demonstrations with the help of the police, I think this indicates that Yanukovych has actually overstepped the limit where terror and dictatorship starts. That is why the Ukrainian delegation to the PACE, represented by BYT and OU-PSD MPs, pointedly left the meeting of the Council of Europe when Yanukovych began to speak," the BYT press service quoted him as saying in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
As reported, Yanukovych said at the PACE session in Strasbourg that the famine of 1932-1933 could not be regarded as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
"The Holodomor was in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. It was the result of Stalin’s totalitarian regime. But it would be wrong and unfair to recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide against [just] one nation," he said.
