Europe (OSCE) "strongly encourages all parliaments to adopt acts regarding recognition of the Holodomor" of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, according to a resolution passed during a plenary meeting of the assembly's 17th annual session on July 3.
The Famine of 1932-1933 embraced numerous regions in the Soviet Union, as well as Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus. Certain Ukrainian politicians considered the famine to be genocide against the Ukrainian people and placed responsibility for this on central authorities.
"The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly pays tribute to the innocent lives of millions of Ukrainians who perished during the Holodomor of 1932 and 1933 as a result of the mass starvation brought about by the cruel deliberate actions and policies of totalitarian Stalinist regime," reads the document. The assembly also "supports the initiative of Ukraine to reveal the full truth of this tragedy of Ukrainian people, in particular, through raising public awareness of the Holodomor at international and national levels."
During the PACE session in April, the assembly's bureau backed the initiative of Ukraine to consider the question of the Holodomor of the 1930s in Ukraine. The country planned to draft a document requesting recognition of the famine as genocide against the Ukrainian people.
A Russian delegation in the PACE slammed such a wording of the report and proposed to combine documents and honor the memory of all victims of the famine.
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