Poroshenko Tasks Foreign Ministry to Seek Recognition of Holodomor as Genocide

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Memorial the Holodomor; 1932-1933 (death by hunger) in Kyiv, Ukraine - Sputnik International
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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko said that he tasked the Foreign Ministry with resuming its work on recognition of Holodomor as a genocide against the Ukrainian people by the world community including states and international organizations.

KIEV (Sputnik) — Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko said on Saturday that he had tasked the Foreign Ministry with resuming its work on the international recognition of Holodomor as a genocide against Ukrainians.

"I just signed a presidential decree… which also tasks the Foreign Ministry with resuming its work on recognition of Holodomor as a genocide against the Ukrainian people by the world community including states and international organizations," Poroshenko said during his speech on Holodomor Remembrance Day.

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On November 26, Ukraine commemorates victims of 1932-1933 famine, which, according to the Ukrainian law, is recognized as a genocide against Ukrainians. The famine spread across southern regions of the Soviet Union including Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the early 30s claiming lives of up to 7 million people.

In 2008, the UN General Assembly voted against recognizing the Ukrainian famine as genocide.

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