For the second year now, a joint Ukrainian-Polish program "Memory Without Borders" has been taking place in the territories of two neighboring states (the Republic of Poland and Ukraine), implemented on the one hand by the Polish Scouting Association and the "National Alliance" and Plast on the other. This public initiative provides for the restoration of burials of soldiers of the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic on the territory of Poland and legionnaires of Piłsudski's army in Ukraine.
At yesterday's press conference, which was attended by the Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Lutsk, Wojciech Gałązka, deputy head of the Zgierz branch of the Polish Scouting Association, head of the All-Ukrainian youth public organization "National Alliance," deputy of the Lutsk City Council Ihor Huz, and deputy head of the Volyn organization of the "Ukrainian People's Party" Serhiy Hodlevskyi.
The reason for the meeting with local mass media was the latest events related to the meeting of Mr. Huz and Mr. Hodlevskyi with the Minister of the Republic of Poland, Secretary of the Council for the Protection of Memory of Victims of Repressions Andrzej Przewoźnik, which took place recently in the capital of Poland.
According to the participants of the press conference, during the respective meeting the Polish side gave high praise to the work of the young people and promised comprehensive support in the implementation of further plans. Thus, in the future, based on the results of the "Memory Without Borders" program, an exhibition is planned to be organized in Warsaw on the occasion of the visit to Poland of President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko in March of this year, and later — in Lublin, Lutsk and Kyiv. Senator of the Republic of Poland, head of the defense and public security commission Józef Dziemiela, also expressed his readiness to visit the capital of Ukraine and participate in holding this exhibition in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
According to Ihor Huz, during the visit of the Ukrainian side to the city of Zgierz in the Republic of Poland, a number of issues in the sphere of business and management concerning the city of Lutsk were considered. In addition to the direct implementation of the program, a number of agreements were reached on cooperation between the "National Alliance" and the "Ukrainian People's Party" with public-political organizations of right-wing orientation. In particular, an agreement was reached on holding joint training sessions with members of the youth organization of the "Law and Justice" party — the Youth Forum; also, at the invitation of the deputy mayor of the city of Zgierz, Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, of the "Civic Platform" party, Ukrainian youth will take part in the work of the party's headquarters during the parliamentary and presidential elections in Poland, which will take place in the autumn of this year. At the end of the press conference, Mr. Huz noted that from July 1 to 14 of this year, within the framework of the "Memory Without Borders" program, a Ukrainian-Polish cultural forum for youth is planned to be held in the Lublin region.
Nazar Valchuk, "Political Ukraine", Volyn Oblast.