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1. Ukrainian National Opera house		2. Ukrainian National Opera house		3. Ukrainian National Opera house
4. Kyiv regional state administration head Vira Ulianchenko at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		5. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (centre) and Verkhovna Rada deputy Ivan Pliusch of the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense faction (most right)		6. (left to right) National Security and Defense Council secretary Raisa Bohatyriova and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the Ukrainian National Opera in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"
7. National Security and Defense Council secretary Raisa Bohatyriova		8. International forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		9. President Viktor Yuschenko speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"
10. President Viktor Yuschenko speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		11. President Viktor Yuschenko speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		12. President Viktor Yuschenko speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"
13. President Viktor Yuschenko speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		14. President Viktor Yuschenko speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		15. President Viktor Yuschenko speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"
16. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		17. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		18. President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"
19. President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		20. President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		21. President of Poland Lech Kaczynski speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"
22. President of Poland Lech Kaczynski speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		23. President of Poland Lech Kaczynski speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		24. President of Poland Lech Kaczynski speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"
25. President of Poland Lech Kaczynski speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		26. President of Poland Lech Kaczynski speaking in the Ukrainian National Opera house in Kyiv at the international forum "My Nation Will Be For Ever"		27. President of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko

"On behalf of the Ukrainian state I am expressing gratitude to all countries and international organizations that have recognized Holodomor of 1932-1933 as an act of genocide, condemned it as crime against humanity, and commemorated millions of victims," President Viktor Yuschenko said at an international forum entitled "My Nation Will Be For Ever" in Kyiv on November 22.

As of November 17, thirteen states have directly recognized Holodomor famine as an act of genocide, Yuschenko said.

President Yuschenko reiterated that Holodomor in Ukraine was genocide against the Ukrainian nation.

"This was an artificial, deliberate tragedy pursuing the goal of killing the nation. The famine was selected as a weapon to subdue the Ukrainian people. This crime, in the terms of its cope, goals, and its methods, falls under the definition of genocide set by the United Nations Convention of 1948," Yuschenko said.

Yuschenko urged nations of other countries to jointly condemn the totalitarian communist regime and any attempts to rehabilitate or justify crimes of the Stalin regime.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili took the floor after President Yuschenko.

The address of Saakashvili to the forum was in Ukrainian from the very beginning to the end.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Ukraine commemorates victims of the Holodomor artificial famine in the country in 1932-1933 on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the national tragedy on November 22.

On October 23, the European Parliament recognized the Holodomor famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933 as a crime against Ukrainian people and humanity.

On September 23, the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress recognized the Holodomor famine as genocide against Ukrainian people.

President Yuschenko has declared 2008 the year of commemoration of victims of 1932-33 Holodomor.

In 2006, the Verkhovna Rada declared the Holodomor of 1932-1933 an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.

According to various estimates, the Holodomor artificial famine killed between three million and seven million of innocent people in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 alone.