New UWCC executive council (10/12/97)

New UWCC executive council

On August 23 Ivan Drach was re-elected president of the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council. From the Western diaspora, Dr. Dmytro Cipywnyk (president of the Ukrainian World Congress) and Oksana Bryzhun-Sokolyk (president of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations) were installed as vice-presidents. From the Eastern diaspora, Oleksander Harkavets of Kazakstan was also chosen to serve as vice-president. The other Eastern diaspora vice-president (a post formerly held by Oleksander Rudenko-Desniak) is to be chosen at the Association of Ukrainians in Russia's triennial convention scheduled for October 24-25. VPs from Ukraine are Mykola Zhulynsky and Pavlo Movchan.

Taken from the August 28 issue of Visti z Ukrainy, the following is a list of representatives from Ukraine, the Western diaspora and the Eastern diaspora, chosen by the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council's nominating committee to the executive council. For the record, officials of Poland's Ukrainian community have correctly pointed out that since they inhabit traditional Ukrainian ethnographic territories, they are not "diasporan." The name of the first category has been modified accordingly. Also, the UWCC's creative approach to geography placed the Moldovan representative in the "Eastern diaspora" group.

From the West:

Dr. Dmytro Cipywnyk (UWC president), Vasyl Veryha (UWC vice-president, treasurer), Yaroslav Sokolyk (UWC general secretary), Oksana Sokolyk (president, World Federation of Women's Organizations), Jurij Rejt (president, European Congress of Ukrainians), Yuriy Ivanyk (Argentina), Stepan Romaniv (Australia), Omelan Kowal (Belgium), Oleh Romaniw (Canada), Lydia Rajcincova (Czech Rep.), Yuriy Chaikovsky (Estonia), Iryna Spech (Germany), Lubomyr Mazur (United Kingdom), Askold Lozynskyj (U.S.), Ulana Diachuk (U.S.).

From Ukraine:

Ivan Drach (UWCC president), Mykola Zhulynsky (UWCC vice-president), Pavlo Movchan (UWCC vice-president), Oleh Chornohuz, Ivan Dzyuba, Mykhailo Horyn, Lilia Hryhorovych, Vitalii Karpenko, Yurii Kolesnikov, Petro Kononenko, Volodymyr Muliava, Borys Oliinyk, Anatolii Pohribni, Mykhailo Slaboshpytsky, Volodymyr Yevtukh.

From the Eastern diaspora:

Oleksander Harkavets (UWCC vice-president), Olha Parkhomenko (Armenia), Halyna Stankevych (Belarus), Mykhailo Parypsa (Kazakstan), Volodymyr Narodzia (Kyrgyzstan), Mykola Oliinyk (Moldova), Vasyl Babenko (Bashkorostan, Russian Federation), Vasyl Antoniv (Moscow, RF), Pavlo Popovych (Moscow, RF), Oleksander Rudenko-Desniak (Moscow, RF), Valentyn Mykhailiuk (Sochi, RF), Mykola Zhyhla (St. Petersburg, RF), Pavlo Klymenko (Tiumen, RF), Liuba Diachenko (Yakutia, RF), Stanislav Mansurov-Kovryhenko (Uzbekistan).

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