Some 15 states officially recognized the Holodomor of 1932-1933 (Ukrainian Famine) as genocide of the Ukrainian people, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Vasyl Bodnar has said.
“We can already say that 15 states have officially recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people. In 20 states, corresponding memorial signs and monuments have been installed that honor the victims of the Holodomor. More than 70 states annually hold commemorative events that perpetuate this memory and mobilize the world community in memory of the Holodomor,” Bodnar said at the international forum “Mass artificial famines: we remember, we honor” in Kyiv on September 7.
He said the Holodomor subject has been heard on the platforms of international organizations since 2003, in particular in the UN, OSCE, UNESCO, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the European Parliament. “We are expanding the number of these international organizations, which join in the knowledge of the fact of the crime of the Soviet regime against the Ukrainian people,” Bodnar said.
The Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine also said the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently continuing the same policy of the Stalinist regime. “The ongoing aggression is one of the clearest examples of repression, murder, and the seizure of foreign territories,” he said.
Bodnar said that major information campaigns will continue and further gain momentum in the work of the Foreign Ministry. “For us, the main task is not only to raise awareness of the international community but to get our partners to condemn the totalitarian regime and show that Ukrainians survived precisely because of their strength and because they can resist, as we are showing it today,” the deputy minister said.
