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UKRAINIAN WORLD CONGRESS
CONGRESO MUNDIAL UCRANIO

145 EVANS AVENUE, #207, TORONTO ON M8Z 5X8 CANADA TEL. (416) 323-3020 FAX (416) 323-3250
E-MAIL: congress@look.ca INTERNET: ukrainianworldcongress.org

225 E. 11th STREET, NEW YORK NY 10003 USA TEL. (212) 254-2260 FAX (212) 979-1011

E-MAIL: Askold@verizon.net

February 23, 2006

The Honorable Jacques Chirac

President of the Republic of France

Dear Mr. President:

As the representative organization of citizens or simply residents of more than thirty countries who
are of Ukrainian ethnicity, we write to you in a matter of grave importance. This matter was brought
to our attention by representatives of the French-Ukrainian community and involves an employee of a
state operated educational institution.

Madame le Professeur Lacroix-Riz of the University Paris-7 has written that the famine-genocide in
Ukraine 1932-33 is a German-Polish-Vatican fabrication. Additionally, she has labeled the Ukrainian
Catholic Church fascist and Nazi. The French-Ukrainian community has written letters to Madame le
Professeur Lacroix-Riz, the Universitys Rector and Frances Education Minister with no response.

With consideration for academic freedom as well as freedom of speech, nevertheless we are deeply
concerned with historical revisionism bordering on bigotry. The famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine, as the
world has recognized, was a heinous genocide of some seven million men, women and children perpetrated
by the Soviet regime under Josef Stalin. Ms. Lacroix-Riz dishonors not only the memory of these
innocent victims but also the memories of victims of other genocides. Additionally, her slur against
the Ukrainian Catholic Church brings to focus what can only be described as ethnic enmity.

Given the fact that the reputation of French education and scholarship is at issue as well as the
compassion of the people of France for the suffering of others, we request that you involve yourself
in this matter. We do not seek Ms. LaCroix dismissal nor even her condemnation. We do request that the
President of France issue a statement disavowing the personal bigotry of one of his employees.

Respectfully,

Askold S. Lozynskyj

President Ukrainian World Congress

Copies: The Permanent Representation of the Republic of France

to the United Nations

The Permanent Representation of Ukraine to the United Nations

Embassy of the Republic of France in Canada

Embassy of the Republic of France in the United States

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