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On 29 January 2016 in Washington, U.S.A., Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) President Eugene Czolij and Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe officially signed a Memorandum of Agreement to renew the cooperation between the UWC and the Atlantic Council, that began in September 2014.
In accordance with this Memorandum, the UWC will continue its cooperation with the Atlantic Council on implementing the “Ukraine in Europe Initiative”, which aims to galvanize international support for an independent, sovereign and territorially integral Ukraine, including Crimea. This initiative is also intended to support reforms in Ukraine and its Euro-Atlantic integration, and to counter Russian disinformation.
The achievements of the “Ukraine in Europe Initiative” include three extensive reports in 2015: Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea, Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin’s War in Ukraine and The Militarization of Crimea under Russian Occupation.
On this day, the UWC President addressed a strategic session of the Atlantic Council on Ukraine during which he emphasized the importance of continuing targeted sanctions against Russia until it fully complies with the Minsk agreements, supporting the processes for Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration, including during the upcoming referendum in the Netherlands on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, and strengthening actions to combat Russian disinformation.
In the framework of this session Eugene Czolij discussed the issue of sanctions against Russia with Ambassador Daniel Fried, Coordinator for Sanctions Policy, U.S. Department of State.
During a meeting with the Director for Eastern European Affairs, U.S. National Security Council, Liz Zentos, the UWC President expressed concern over President Barack Obama’s statement during the 2016 State of the Union address to the U.S. Congress that Ukraine is a “client state” of Russia, and he urged the United States to clearly accentuate that Ukraine is a victim of Russian aggression and support the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
The UWC President also met with the Ambassador of Ukraine to the U.S.A., Valeriy Chaly, to discuss the strengthening of mutual relations between the Ukrainian diaspora and Ukraine.
At separate meetings the UWC President was accompanied by the Director of the Ukrainian National Information Service, Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Michael Sawkiw, and prominent community activist and philanthropist George Chopivsky.
“I trust that the cooperation between the UWC and the Atlantic Council will continue to effectively further awareness of the international community on Russia’s violation of the world order, and help defend the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, thereby stopping the advance of Russian imperialism into the West,” stated UWC President Eugene Czolij.
In the photo: Signing of the Memorandum of Agreement (from left): Eugene Czolij and Frederick Kempe.
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Source: http://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/news.php/popup/1/news/1316
Ukrainians demand end to 66 years of N.Y. Times lying
Les Kinsolving By Les Kinsolving
Published June 14, 2003 at 1:00am
As a shareholder in the New York Times Company, I rejoiced to learn from the Associated Press: "Amid a devastating reporting scandal in which two top editors have resigned, the New York Times faces the possible loss of its 1932 Pulitzer Prize.
"Times reporter Walter Duranty won the award more than 70 years ago for his reporting on the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin's communist regime.
"In April, however, a Pulitzer committee launched a review of Duranty's work after Ukrainian groups worldwide complained he deliberately ignored the forced famine in the Ukraine that killed millions."
"In April, however, a Pulitzer committee launched a review of Duranty's work after Ukrainian groups worldwide complained he deliberately ignored the forced famine in the Ukraine that killed millions."
Actually, as detailed in the book "Stalin's Apologist," Duranty, New York Times Moscow correspondent emphatically denied any such Stalinist mass murders, for which British correspondent Malcolm Muggeridge called Duranty "the worst liar in the history of journalism."
That apparently has made much too little a difference to the New York Times Company.
At one shareholders' meeting I asked (then) publisher Arthur ("Punch") Sulzberger why this monumental liar Duranty's framed photograph is on the wall of the Times' hall of fame of Pulitzer winners. "Punch" was both courteous and concerned.
He arranged for me to tour the hall, and later told me that under Duranty's picture a plaque had been installed reading "Other writers in the Times and elsewhere have discredited this coverage."
That was surely not enough – that and the Times' counting Duranty among all their Pulitzer winners about which they annually brag.
When at a later Times shareholders' meeting, I asked about this again – of new publisher Arthur ("Pinch") Sulzberger – this young man was totally rude and resistant.
In the Pulitzer Prize's 86 years of existence, no prize has been revoked, the AP reported – although the Washington Post surrendered Janet Cooke's 1991 award after she admitted writing a series about an 8-year-old heroin addict who didn't exist. The Post failed, however, to fire editor Ben Bradlee who allowed these days of lies into the print of the Washington Post.
Michael Sawkiw Jr., president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, said more than 15,000 post cards, and thousands more letters and e-mails, were sent to the Pulitzer board.
"Exactly like Jayson Blair, the heart of all this is journalistic integrity and ethics," said Sawkiw.
For denying Stalin's mass murder of Ukrainians, Duranty of the New York Times was given exclusive interviews with this dictator, and accompanied Molotov to Washington in 1933 when President Roosevelt extended diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union.
That the New York Times has refused to repudiate Duranty's Pulitzer – as the Washington Post sent back their lying reporter Janet Cooke's Pulitzer – is a continuing American journalistic outrage.
If New York Times publisher "Pinch" decides not to repudiate Duranty's Pulitzer and stop the annual bragging with Duranty as one of the Pulitzer recipients, young Sulzberger should be forced to resign, just as he (finally) forced the resignation of editors Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd.