PACE recognises Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainian people
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has voted for the recognition of Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba thanked the parliamentarians for recognizing the Stalinist Holodomor of 1932-1933 as an act of genocide against Ukrainian people in his Twitter (X) post.
The decision was made with 73 votes "for" and one "against".
I thank @PACE_News for recognizing Stalin's 1932–1933 Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people. It is also important that PACE encouraged all @coe and other parliaments to follow suit. This is a morally, historically, and politically right thing to do. pic.twitter.com/28cd021RYY
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) October 12, 2023
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his gratitude for this decision.
I am grateful to @coe Parliamentary Assembly for recognising the 1932-1933 Holodomor as genocide against the Ukrainian people. Restoring historical justice and paying tribute to Holodomor victims sends a message that justice is inevitable for all past and present Moscow's crimes.
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) October 12, 2023
As of now, Holodomor has been recognized as the genocide of the Ukrainian people by the parliaments of about 30 countries in the world and by the European Parliament.
On December 15, the European Parliament voted in favor of a resolution recognizing the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide of the Ukrainian people.
In 2023, it will be 91 years since the USSR authorities organized targeted measures to confiscate grain and other foodstuffs from the people of Ukraine in 1932, leading to the Holodomor, one of the greatest famine tragedies in Ukrainian history. The Holodomor of 1932-1933 was later recognized as genocide of Ukrainians by the Stalinist regime.
