UWC Calls Upon Ukrainian Government Authorities to Ensure the Erection of a Monument in Honour of T. Shevchenko in the Vinnytsia Main Square

February 8, 2012

PRESS RELEASE

 

 

UWC CALLS UPON UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES TO ENSURE

THE ERECTION OF A MONUMENT IN HONOUR OF TARAS SHEVCHENKO

IN THE VINNYTSIA MAIN SQUARE

 

On February 8, 2012, the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) sent a letter to President Viktor Yanukovych with a copy to the mayor of Vinnytsia, Volodymyr Groysman, expressing concern about the obstacles to erecting a monument in the Vinnytsia main square in honour of a brilliant son of the Ukrainian nation, the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko.

 

The UWC made reference to the November 17, 2011 resolution of the Vinnytsia City Council administration which substituted the resolutions adopted in 2004 and 2010 regarding the erection of a Taras Shevchenko monument in the central Teatral’na Square with a number of provisions pertaining to public opinion on the issue of building this monument in any one of several other locations. This decision also resulted in the suspension of the previously announced competition for the design of the Taras Shevchenko monument in Teatral’na Square. 

 

The UWC called upon Ukrainian government authorities to review these actions of the Vinnytsia City Council administration as quickly as possible and to ensure the erection of a monument in Vinnytsia’s Teatral’na Square worthy of the greatness of Taras Shevchenko whose 200th anniversary of birth will be marked in two years by Ukrainians worldwide.