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17 July 2008 15:12

Ukraine 3000 Foundation and State Archive Committee of Ukraine Sign Memorandum on Cooperation

July 17, 2008, a ceremony of signing the Memorandum on Cooperation between the State Archive Committee of Ukraine and the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation took place at the State Scholarly Archive Library.

The document was signed by Head of the Board of Directors of the Ukraine 3000 Foundation Oleksandr Maksymchuk and Head of the State Archive Committee Oleksandr Udod. Among other participants of the event were deputy heads, members of the board, and senior officers of the State Archive Committee of Ukraine, directors of Ukraine’s central state archives, and Ukraine 3000 representatives.

In his speech Mr. Maksymchuk said that the Ukraine 3000 Foundation had initiated and was implementing a series of projects aimed at restoring the historical memory, in part, History Lessons: Manmade Famine of 1932-1933. “The cooperation with state bodies’ archives gives us a chance to find persuasive historical documents and realize the true scale of the tragic pages of Ukrainian history. We are grateful to the State Archive Committee of Ukraine for its preparedness to cooperate with us,” he said.

Signing the Memorandum is just another proof of Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s and State Archive Committee of Ukraine’s preparedness for mutually beneficial long-term cooperation in studying and popularizing the complicated pages of Ukraine’s history and renewing the historical justice.

The Memorandum envisages publishing scholarly and educational works, preparing and presenting exhibitions. One of the most important areas will be popularizing documents covering the events of the Holodomor manmade famine, repressions against Ukraine’s citizens under the totalitarian regime, documents of World War II, in part, related to Nazi crimes committed in Ukraine’s territory, as well as creating content for the Foundation’s web resources.

The State Archive Committee of Ukraine is a specially authorized central body of the executive power in archive keeping and records management. The State Archive Committee of Ukraine makes motions to the Cabinet of Ministers regarding the state policy in archive keeping and records management and implements them; manages archive keeping and records management; works out state programs for developing archive keeping and records management; coordinates intersectorial cooperation, functional regulation, provides methodical guidelines for archive keeping and records management and monitors the situation in this area. The network of archive institutions subordinated to the State Archive Committee of Ukraine includes 680 institutions, seven of them being central state archives. The State Archive Committee of Ukraine’s archives keep over 58,000,000 documents of various kinds from the National Archive Fund.

Earlier Ukraine 3000 has signed similar Memorandums with the State Security Service (2006) and Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (2008).