Open letter to the President of the European Parliament (ENG)

The Honorable Martin Schulz

President of the European Parliament

Rue Wiertz 60

1047 Bruxelles, Belgique

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Dear Mr. Martin!

We, Ukrainian migrants who work and pay taxes in European countries, are always watching  with hope and gratitude for  the initiatives of the European Union to integrate Ukraine into the European community in which we currently live and the values of  which we accepted for ourselves.

Respecting the culture, traditions and language of the people who gave us the opportunity to resolve our economic and social problems by providing us with employment but we still continue to support our country with a strong desire to travel to European countries in the future, not in the status of migrants, but as rightful citizens of Ukraine, a member of the EU..

Unfortunately the last Resolution of the European Parliament on Ukraine (dated 13 December 2012, hereinafter, the “Resolution”)., namely, Paragraph 8 on Ukrainian nationalism and the party "Svoboda" makes us wonder whether  EU member states want to see us just as cheap labor or as equal partners of a neighboring state?

Ukraine is not the only nation in the European geographic area, which has paid so dearly for the privilege to be called as such by millions of innocent victims of Holodomor, repressions and tortures.

There are already enough unclassified documents that give grounds for a new "Nuremberg" trial for the horrible crimes of the communist regime in the Soviet Union and its satellites. But the European Parliament has still not acknowledged the worst of these crimes – the Holodomor of 1932-33 as a genocide against the Ukrainian people. The Ukrainian people have yet to receive an apology for the silence of a civilized Europe during Stalin’s artificially induced death machine - the Holodomor. Instead, paragraph 8 of the resolution openly condemns the victims, not the perpetrators of the communist regime of the Soviet Union.

Most importantly, the main cause of the mass migration of Ukrainians to the other European countries at the end of the last century and until now was inherited from the Soviet Union’s corrupt system of government. Leaders of the new Ukrainian state who in the past were the communist leaders changed their titles but they did not change their mentality. Instead of the dream of liberty and future generations of Ukrainian patriots in a truly  democratic Ukraine, they have a built a "de facto" oligarchic government  system in which  there is no place for the Ukrainians as an ethnic group. As such, there language, culture and identity of Ukraine are being destroyed.

The Svoboda party won the majority of the votes in the last election of the Ukrainian Parliament in 2012 in the foreign voting stations located in EU countries with a large presence of Ukrainian labor migrants. What Ukraine needs as a nation is support from outside countries from further attrition, not condemnation due to false and defamatory misconceptions.

This is the reason as to why we made our choice, taking into consideration values embraced in the countries of our current residence. And, unlike the Bulgarian Deputy, who authored Article  8 of the Resolution we believe that the real threat to Ukrainian society is the ruling Party of Regions with its anti-democratic methods of governance and its support of corruption, not the Svoboda party in alliance with other opposition parties that want to bring Ukraine to the European level of development and who  have already begun to implement it.

For these reasons, honorable Mr. President of the European Parliament, we ask you to withdraw the Resolution, regarding Ukrainian nationalism and  the Svoboda Party taking into account the wishes of the Ukrainian labor migrants who are deprived of political rights to vote in the EU, but  who directly contribute by their work to the development of the European Union.

Union of Ukrainians in Portugal  – President, Pavlo Sadokha  Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Christian Society of Ukrainians in Italy  – President, Olesy Horodetzkiy Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Society of Ukrainian Diaspora in Greece “Ukrainian-Greek Thought” – President, Halyna Maslyuk-Kakku Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Association “Ukrainian Community of Spain in support of Rights, Honor and Dignity of Ukrainians” (Spain)  – President, Yuriy Chopyk Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Association “Ukrainian Christian Movement” (Portugal)  – President, Ivan Onyschuk Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Association “Source of the World” (Portugal) – President, Boris Kucheras Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Association of Ukrainians “Council” (Portugal)  – President, Oleh Hutzyko Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Union of Ukrainians Alharve (Portugal) – President, Ihor Korbelyak Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Ukrainian-Portuguese Educational and Cultural Center “Taras Shevchenko School” in Faru (Portugal)   –  President, Natalia Dmytruk Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Association of Ukrainians in Cantabria “Oberih” (Spain) – President, Maria Kurnytcka Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Association of Ukrainians in Catalonia “Guilder Rose” (Spain) – President, Volodymir  Petrushczak     Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Association OCI (OCI Organizzazione Cittadini Immigrati) (Italy)   – President, Volodimyr Stepanyuk      Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Association of Ukrainians in the Mursia Region (Spain)  - President, Larysa Ponamarenko      Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

“Ukrainian Liberty” (Prague, Czech Republic) - Vice-President, Oleg Zaynulin Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Central Union of Ukrainians in Germany (Germany) – President, Ludmyla Mlosh Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

Association of Ukrainians in Murcia " Ukranians family" (Spain) - President, Stefania Shevcova  Ця електронна адреса захищена від спам-ботів. Вам необхідно увімкнути JavaScript, щоб побачити її.

PDF:  Open letter to the President of the European Parliament  (ENG)

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