Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba appealed to the German Bundestag with a call to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people.
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Dmytro Kuleba addressed the German Bundestag with an important message. He asks Germany to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people.
This was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
“The Holodomor has not yet been recognized by the German Bundestag as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. I “I am convinced that the obstacles have always been political. The previous composition of the Bundestag did not have the political will to take this step. The good old policy of “not provoking Russia” also prevented it,” Dmitry Kuleba stressed.
He also added that the author of the term ” genocide” – the eminent lawyer Rafael Lemkin. He defined the Holodomor as “a classic example of the Soviet genocide.”
“This November we will mark the 90th anniversary of the Stalinist genocide of the Ukrainian people, the Holodomor. we will see a just and historic decision of the German Bundestag this fall. Such a step will honor the memory of the victims, but will also be the restoration of international law and justice. Fortunately, politics “did not provoke Russia” in the past as well. Therefore, with Now is a good time to take this step,” the minister stressed.
Recall that the body of a man who died during the occupation was found in the Kyiv region.
