Mayor Menino proclaims President Viktor Yushchenko Day

Following is the text of a mayoral proclamation issued by Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino on April 5 that proclaimed the day President Viktor Yushchenko Day.

Whereas: President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine will receive the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award from Caroline Kennedy and Sen. Edward Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Mass., on April 5; and

Whereas: President Yushchenko survived an assassination attempt and overcame the efforts of Russian-backed political opponents to rig his defeat as the democratically elected leader of Ukraine - a European country of close to 50 million people; and

Whereas: President Yushchenko led the peaceful Orange Revolution in Ukraine - a grass-roots movement that brought millions of ordinary citizens of all walks of life to the capital streets of Kyiv and throughout Ukraine; and

Whereas: President Yushchenko's election is inspiring the spread of democracy throughout the world, in spite of threats and intimidation; and

Whereas: Boston has benefited greatly from the contributions of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian Americans who have immigrated and settled here since the 1870s;

Now, therefore, I, Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of the City of Boston, do hereby proclaim Tuesday, April 5, 2005, to be President Viktor Yushchenko Day in the City of Boston and join with all Boston residents in recognizing and honoring the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and commend and thank him for his inspiring selfless courage and devotion to his country's continued democratic and market development and, by doing so, his leadership on the spread of democracy throughout the world.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, April 10, 2005, No. 15, Vol. LXXIII

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