The participants of the III World Forum of Ukrainians

KyivPress Photo, Left-right: Kyiv’s Mayor Alexander Omelchenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine Anatoly Kinakh, VR Speaker Ivan Plyushch, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian World Coordination Committee Chairman Mikhail Goryn, Ukrainian ex-President Leonid Keravchuk and State Committee on Information Policy, Television and Broadcasting Chairman Ivan Drach stand in the presidium of the III World Forum of Ukrainians, to honor the memory of Ukrainians, who died for the Independence of Ukraine, on the day of Forum opening on Saturday, August 18, 2001, Kyiv. 300 delegates from Western and Eastern Ukrainian Diaspora from the 42 world states gathered on the Forum. Besides, 300 delegates from around Ukraine, 100 honored guests and 750 representatives of Foreign Ukrainian organizations also took part in the Forum. Photo by Alexander Sinitsa/ UNIAN