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January 2018 UCCA Bulletin:

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UCCA Welcomes U.S. decision to sell Arms to Ukraine 
Beginning on December 13, Ukraine has been cleared to buy certain light weapons and small arms from United States manufacturers. This news followed that of Ukraine being added by the Canadian government to that country’s Automatic Firearms Country Control List (AFCCL), a special register of countries to which Canada can export weapons. 
The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America immediately issued a statement welcoming the decisions by the United States and Canadian governments on December 13, to allow exporters to apply for permits for the commercial export of certain firearms, weapons, and devices from U.S. and Canadian manufacturers. In the statement, UCCA also renewed its call for the United States to provide lethal defensive assistance to Ukraine, citing U.S. special envoy, Ambassador Kurt Volker, who in December remarked that 2017 was the deadliest year in Ukraine since Russia invaded three years ago.  
Following the authorization of sales, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert announced that the United States will also provide Ukraine with "enhanced defensive capabilities" to help it "deter further aggression." The move is intended to help Ukraine "defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity," and would include Javelin antitank missiles, which UCCA has urged the United States to supply since the beginning of Russia’s invasion. 
Also commenting on the development was co-founder and co-chair of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said that “this decision - while long overdue - will reverse the Obama administration's de facto arms embargo against Ukraine and will finally allow Ukraine to access the tools it needs to defend itself.” 
U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) also referred to this decision as “long overdue.” "With news reports of increased aggression by Russian backed forces in Ukraine, I know our ally in Ukraine will see this as a welcomed first step. However, I hope it is not the last.” 
Throughout 2018, UCCA will recognize several important anniversaries, including:
  • January 22 – the 100th Anniversary of the Fourth Universal, proclaiming an ‘independent, subject to no one, free, sovereign state of the Ukrainian people.’ 
  • January 29 – the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Kruty
  • April 3 – the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ukrainian writer Oles' Honchar
  • May 23 – the 80th Anniversary of the Death of Yevhen Konovalets’ 
  • November 1 – the 100th Anniversary of the Liberation of Lviv by the West Ukrainian People's Republic (ЗYHP) 
  • November 9 – the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Amb. Lev Dobriansky, long-serving president of UCCA 
  • November – the culmination of the 85th Anniversary year since the Holodomor Genocide
Additionally, the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA and the Ukrainian American Veterans will be celebrating major anniversaries of their incorporation this year.  
Ukrainians around the world will participate in an international flash mob - #UnitedUkraine - marking Ukrainian Unity Day on 22 January. (In 2017, over 12,000 participants in 63 countries participated in #UnitedUkraine.) You can join this year’s action by following these steps:
  • Print out or recreate the poster with the motto of the action: “United Ukraine”. High resolution posters can be downloaded here: https://goo.gl/2JJ8ZC.
  • Take a photo or make a video with the poster, horizontal orientation and with one person in the photo.
  • Publish the photo on the official Facebook page of the flash mob https://www.facebook.com/events/167345314031715 and on your own social media pages using the hashtag #UnitedUkraine, and including the city and country in which the photo was taken.
  • Send the photo in high resolution electronically to unitedukraine2018@gmail.com.
At 12:00pm EET (Kyiv time) on January 22nd at Kyiv’s “MediaHub,” the photos of all participants of the flash mob from around the world will be presented to the media and the public.
Українці усього світу приєднаються до міжнародної акції, чи флешмобу, “Україна єдина”, що присвячується Дню соборності України 22 січня. (У 2017 р. у цій міжнародній акції взяли участь більше 12,000 учасників із 63-ох країн світу.) Приєднайтеся до цьогорічної акції, виконавши наступні дії:
  • Роздрукуйте або створіть плакат з гаслом акції: “Україна єдина”. Плакати гарної якості можна завантажити тут: https://goo.gl/2JJ8ZC.
  • Зробіть горизонтальне фото чи відео з зображенням однієї людини з плакатом.
  • Розмістіть фото на офіційній сторінці цієї міжнародної акції в Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/16734531403171 та на своїх власних сторінках у соціальних мережах з позначкою #UnitedUkraine, вказавши місто та країну, в якій зроблене фото.
  • Надішліть фото гарної якості на електронну адресу:  unitedukraine2018@gmail.com.
22 січня 2018 р., о 12:00 дня, на майданчику для громадських заходів (“MediaHub”, Київ) фото всіх учасників цієї міжнародної акції з усього світу, будуть представлені для засобів масової інформації та громадськості.
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The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) is a non-profit, non-partisan community-based organization that has represented the interests of Ukrainians in the United States since 1940. 
Український Конґресовий Комітет Америки (УККА) є неприбутковою, безпартійною громадською організацією, яка представляє інтереси українців у Сполучених Штатах Америки з 1940 року. 
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