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Along with NTUU “KPI”, which is a member of Peace Council, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Black Sea University Network, the Chair of UNESCO “High Technical Education, applied systemic analysis and computer science”, with the help of European center of higher education UNESCO (UNESCO-CEPES), Ukrainian Peace Council became the co-organizer of the Congress of Black Sea University Network, which was held on 2-5 April 2008 in NTUU “KPI”.
BSUN unites 115 higher educational establishments from 11 Black Sea countries: Azerbaijan, Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Moldova, Russian Federation, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine. The forum’s aim is to strengthen the role of universities in the development of the Black Sea region and to improvement regional cooperation in educational, scientific and other areas.
Mychailo Zgurovskiy, rector of NTUU “KPI”, member of the Presidium of the Ukrainian Peace Council, Academician of NAS of Ukraine and Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Scientist of Ukraine, was elected to be the President of BSUN for 2008-2010.
The responsibleemployees of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the national parliaments in the Parliamentary Assembly of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), deputies of Ukraine, rectors of universities and leading scientists - members BSUN, representatives of international institutions and nongovernmental organizations, diplomatic missions, scientific and educational community, students Organizations of Ukraine and others took part in the performance of the Forum.
Leonid Kravchuk, the first President of Ukraine, Head of the Ukrainian Peace Council, gave a speech.
Welcoming the gathering, he noted that educational and scientific institutions of the Black Sea region have initiated many ideas. Universities, he said, have always led the world's intellectual processes.
Continues a long fruitful cooperation with the Ukrainian Peace Council, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the UN and embassies, including: Brazil, Greece, Italy, China, South Korea, the USA, other countries.
The year 2008 was marked by the establishment of contacts with public organizations and Ukrainian communities in the Federative Republic of Brazil and Italy, holding of a number of meetings, signing agreements to conduct joint activities between the Ukrainian Peace Council and the committee on relations with the post-Soviet countries of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Federative Republic of Brazil, outlining the principal propositions of the Agreement on cooperation.
It is planned to open the Departments of the Ukrainian Peace Council in Brazil and other countries of Latin America.
The UPC delegation, led by the Head of the Peace Council Leonid Kravchuk, participated in the international conference Universal Peace Federation that took place from January 29th to February 1st, 2009 in New York, USA. The central topic of the conference was: Establishment of the universal peace and global solidarity.
More than 400 participants from 194 countries of the world took part in the conference they included current and former leaders of the countries and governments represented, parliamentarians, religious figures, other officials of high rank, delegates of governmental and public organizations, representatives of academic circles, of the private sector, mass media and culture and other persons.
The conference was opened by the Secretary General of the Universal Peace Federation Dr. Walsh.
The first President of Ukraine, Head of the Ukrainian Peace Council Leonid Kravchuk made a speech in which he pointed out that: peace is of pivotal importance for Ukrainian people because of the historical past of Ukraine. That is why from the very first days of the independence of Ukraine its policy has been outlined as peace oriented and life supporting. In June 1990 the Verkhovna Rada (parliament ) of Ukraine adopted “The Declaration of Independence” that envisioned Ukraine as a country free from nuclear weapons. The decision to scrap all the nuclear weapons in the territory of Ukraine showed that Ukraine had no nuclear ambitions. It was an unprecedented step in modern history.
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The Head of the Ukrainian Peace Council called upon the participants of the conference to unite their efforts, their wisdom, experience and opportunities for the sake of promoting universal peace The establishment of a global network of peace-making organizations would contribute to the development of the global peace processes.
During the conference Ukrainian delegation took part in a number of meetings with the management of the Universal Peace Federation: the President of the Federation Dr. Quaq Chong Hwa, the Secretary General Dr. Walsh, the executive director of the Peace Festival Aya Goto, the director of the department of cooperation with representatives Massimo Trombin, and with the heads and representatives of the national peace movements.
Leonid Kravchuk gave the interview to the Universal Peace Federation and the American mass media in which he expressed his attitude to the democratic processes that were taking place in the post-Soviet countries. He congratulated the founders of the Federation Dr. Sun Myung Moon on his 90th birthday and awarded the UPC orders to Dr. Sun Myung Moon and Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon.
In March 2009 the Ukrainian Peace Council in cooperation with the Universal Peace Federation held the international conference Mankind is One family: New Vision of Peace in the 21st Century in the framework of the World Tour for Peace 2009.
Representatives of public organizations, governmental institutions, public and political figures, representatives of the diplomatic corps of Ukraine, educationists and scientists, experts on religious matters took part in the conference. The participants adopted the Resolution and the Statement of the international conference Mankind is One family: New Vision of Peace in the 21st Century with the appeal to all progressive forces to step up work in the peace movement.
Jointly with the UPC collctive member the National Technical University of Ukraine Kyivsky Politekhnichny Instytut, with the Embassy of Japan in Ukraine, and with the agency of Japan on international cooperation, friendly relations were established with the International Association Mayors for Peace.
1698 cities are members of the organization Mayors for Peace includes. Working with the understanding that Megapolises are the primary victims of wars, they carry on an active campaign for complete scrapping of nuclear weapons by the year 2020. The UPC supported peace-making initiatives of the international association Mayors for Peace and offered cooperation within the framework of the nuclear-free movement. The UPC also appeals to other countries with propositions to follow the example of Ukraine in scrapping nuclear weapons. At present, some new lines in cooperation are being worked out.
In 2010, the Ukrainian Peace Council participated in the activities and seconded the initiative of its collective member, the National Technical University of Ukraine Kyivsky Politekhnichny Instytut (NTUU) and of the Ukrainian-Polish Center centre at the NTUU to hold a football competition in Ukraine among Ukrainian and Polish student football clubs.
The competition was held in the cities of Donetsk, Kyiv, Lviv and Kharkiv in September of 2010 (these cities will be the venues of the finals of the European Championship Euro-2012). The motto of the tournament was: Through Sports to Cooperation and Mutual Understanding in Europe.
The event was promoted cooperation between establishments of higher education of the Polish Republic and of Ukraine, friendship among young people, and preparation for the Euro-2012. In future, it is planned to widen the geography of the participants and make such football competitions regular.
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