The UPC Programs International activity  

The UPC Chairman Leonid Kravchuk, the Chairman of the Parliament of Greece A. Katlamanis (Athens, May 2000)

  • In 1998-99 free English language courses in educational institutions, business and culture centers in Kyiv were held in cooperation with the International Volunteers Committee of the USA.

  • In 2000 the Ukrainian Peace Council delegation headed by its Chairman Leonid Kravchuk took part in the International Peace Conference and in the World Peace Council General Assembly in Athens, Greece. At the Conference Leonid Kravchuk delivered a report concerning the right of Ukraine to appeal for nuclear disarmament.

  • The Ukrainian Peace Council organised the photo exhibition: Ukraine and Peace – a Glimpse at the World on the Threshold of the Third Millennium in Athens City Hall on occasion of the Conference and the World Peace Council General Assembly. The exhibition was inaugurated by L. Kravchuk (the Chairman of the Ukrainian Peace Council), Y. Sergeyev (the Ambassador of Ukraine to Greece) and Ms Evangelidu (the deputy mayor of Athens).

Improvement of the Ukrainian children's and youth's health program

Since 1998 with the assistance of Athens mayor’s office and Greek public organizations it became possible to establish relations with the community of New Smyrna Saint Metropolia of St. Barbara’s Church which is headed by the Archpriest Theodor Georgiu. Each year the community of St. Barbara’s Church invites children from different parts of Ukraine to spend their summer holidays at Euboea.
Apart from staying on the Aegean Sea, children have an opportunity to visit historical, cultural and religious places of interest of ancient and modern Greece. They may also get acquainted with the history, culture, national traditions and spiritual values of the Greek nation. The Ukrainian Peace Council is grateful to the Archpriest Theodor Georgiu (the director of improvement of the Ukrainian children’s and youth’s health program) and to the community of St. Barbara’s Church for the long-term and effective cooperation.



Yevgeniya Pasternak

  • The establishment of Ukraine-Malta seasonal air communication enabled humanitarian haulage of children from Ukraine to Malta.
  • A number of joint medical, educational and cultural programs were held with Japanese society Friendship.
  • The program Care (Turbota) was established with the assistance of the charity organization headed by our compatriot Yevgeniya Pasternak. The program’s aim was providing low-income groups with charitable meals. For over three years this program provided help to more than four thousand Kyiv residents.
  • For more than two years the Ukrainian Peace Council provided assistance to children’s tuberculosis hospital in Kyiv and children’s department of congenital heart disease, the Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.
  • In frames of Canadian Experience for Ukraine program the film “They cannot wait” was shot. The program was organized with the assistance of The Canadian Embassy in Ukraine and the Canadian Cooperation Fund.
  • The Ukrainian Peace Council jointly with other public organizations (such as the International League of Mother and Sister to the Ukrainian Youth, the Association of the UN Assistance in Ukraine, the International Aid and Friendship Charity Foundation and others) initiated a contest of youth projects held in frames of international Decade of Peace Culture and Child Non-Violence 2001-2010.
  • In 2004 the program Public Figures of Ukraine was launched. The program is aimed at honouring the veterans of peacemaking movement, people of culture, science, sport, education, politics and public figures as well as renowned representatives of different confessions.
  • The delegates exchange program between the Association of the Chinese People for Peace Protection and Disarmament and the Ukrainian Peace Council is implemented in the frame of collaboration with different social organizations since 2004.

The delegation of the Association of the Chinese People for Peace Protection and Disarmament

The meeting between the Chief Negotiator of the UPC Rayisa Taran with the Chairman of the Association of the Chinese People for Peace Protection and Disarmament He Luli and the Deputy Head of the Association Huan Goin, 2008

The delegation of the Association of the Chinese People for Peace Protection and Disarmament, Kyiv, 2010

The meeting between the Chairman of the UPC Leonid Kravchuk and the Chief Negotiator of the Association of the Chinese People for Peace Protection and Disarmament Wang Guangtao, Kyiv, 2010

The goals of the projects are
  • implementing joint peacemaking programs;
  • development mutual social, cultural, economic and other relations between countries;
  • raising the authority of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Peace Council;
  • and others.

The program Establishment of the Ukrainian Peace Council Departments and Missions Abroad was launched in 2006. The program stipulates establishment of the UPC departments in countries with substantial percentage of Ukrainians, such as Brazil, Italy, Poland, Portugal, the USA, France and others.

The Department of The Ukrainian Peace Council in Greece was established in 2007.


Greece, 2007

Forum participants near Taras Shevchenko monument (Athens, Greece)

The main goals of the Program:

  1. Promotion of Ukraine as a peace-loving country, promotion of its peace initiatives (such as nuclear weapon abandonment which serves as an example of healthy peace and humanitarian state philosophy).
  2. Fostering consolidation of the Ukrainian nation, meeting national, cultural, spiritual, educational, social, language and information requirements of Ukrainians that live abroad. The program also aims at protection the rights and legitimate interests of Ukrainians in countries of their permanent or temporary residence and preserving their national and cultural heritage as well as their ethnic identity.
  3. Providing conditions to obtain funds for Ukrainian investment projects, grants, humanitarian, technical, financial aid aimed at:
    • supporting disadvantaged groups, sick persons, combatants, casualties of armed conflicts, anthropogenic and ecological catastrophes, people of science, culture, sport and peace-making movement participants.
    • constructing, reconstructing and supporting organizations and events aimed at improving ecological environment in Ukraine, supporting mass media, culture informational and publishing centers and new technologies.
  4. Assisting children’s and youth’s health improvement programs.

The above mentioned goals can be reached by conducting international assemblies, forums, conferences and other activities with the assistance of the Ukrainian diaspora, bringing public, state and political figures, people of education, art, and businessmen of Ukraine into the picture.

The speech of the Chief Negotiator of the UPC Yuriy Shcherbak at the Fourth Forum of Ukrainians in Greece

Forum participants, Greece, 2010

The Head of the UPC Department Galina Maslyuk-Kakku, the Ambassador of Ukraine to Greece V.A. Shkurov and 2010 Forum participants

 
     
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