Delegates issue convention greeting (05/31/98)

Delegates issue convention greeting

We, the delegates of the 34th Convention of the UNA, gathered in Toronto, Canada, send our sincere greetings to Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma, the Ukrainian government and the Ukrainian people, who are steadily advancing along the road to a democratic society and a market economy in their independent state, and are doing their utmost to integrate into the European and Atlantic community of nations.

We also extend greetings to the hierarchs and faithful of our Churches - to the Ukrainian Catholic Church and the Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine, the U.S. and Canada, as well as to the ministers and faithful of our Evangelical communities in the diaspora and in Ukraine.

In addition, we, the delegates of the 34th Convention of the UNA greet the leadership and membership of all Ukrainian civic organizations around the world - national and local, youth, scientific, women's, charitable, and all other organizations and institutions.

We warmly greet all of our compatriots scattered about the world: in the countries of the Western Hemisphere, in Australia, in Western Europe and on the territories of now independent countries, who recently endured the yoke of the former Soviet Union.

As it has throughout its 104 years of existence, the Ukrainian National Association will continue to extend moral and, where possible, financial support to all efforts that aim to strengthen and develop Ukrainians in the world.

Press and Resolutions Committee: Roman Ferencevych, chairman (Branch 25); Halyna Kolessa, Ukrainian-language secretary (Branch 489); Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj (Toronto Press Bureau, The Ukrainian Weekly); delegates Vera Krywyj (Branch 174); and Wasyl Sharvan (Branch 127).