UNA and UFA begin merger negotiations (02/04/96)

UNA and UFA begin merger negotiations

JERSEY CITY. N.J. - Officers of the Ukrainian National Association and the Ukrainian Fraternal Association met here at the former's Home Office on January 11 to discuss the merger of these two fraternal organizations.

At their second meeting, the two fraternals' negotiating committees discussed whether a merger of the UNA and UFA can be effected in 1996, before the regularly scheduled conventions of both organizations that are to take place in 1998.

In accordance with a decision of the special meeting of the UNA General Assembly, which convened at the UNA headquarters building in Jersey City on November 18-19, 1995, the UNA's negotiating team comprises: President Ulana Diachuk, Secretary Martha Lysko, Treasurer Alexander Blahitka and Walter Sochan, honorary member of the General Assembly and former longtime supreme secretary of the UNA.

Also participating as the UNA's legal counsel was Nestor Olesnycky, the UNA's vice-president.

The Ukrainian Fraternal Association was represented by President John Oleksyn, Secretary Serge Kowalchuk and Secretary-Treasurer George Klapischak.

Among the topics discussed were the requirements of the two state insurance departments of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where the UNA and UFA, respectively, are registered, including deadlines for submission of various documents, such as the merger agreement itself.

Similarly, a meeting between representatives of the UNA and the Ukrainian National Aid Association of America took place in Jersey City on December 16, 1995.

The UNA General Assembly, the organization's highest decision-making body between quadrennial conventions voted at its special meeting in November 1995 to go ahead with merger negotiations with both the Ukrainian Fraternal Association and the Ukrainian National Aid Association of America.

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