Bundestag Ready to Recognise Holodomor as Genocide
The majority of political groups in the German Bundestag have reached an agreement on a joint resolution recognising the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people.
"All democratic German fractions agreed on a milestone joint Holodomor resolution to be passed next week. Decided: Bundestag sees it as a genocide," wrote Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba on Twitter.
All democratic German fractions agreed on a milestone joint Holodomor resolution to be passed next week.
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) November 25, 2022
Decided: Bundestag sees it as a genocide.
Grateful to Germany and personally to @larsklingbeil @nouripour @christianduerr @_FriedrichMerz for honoring the Ukrainian people.
Sources also claim that Kuleba has held talks on this matter with all the democratic groups of the coalition and the opposition in the previous weeks. They did not go public not to affect the process.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also raised this issue in a conversation with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier when he visited Kyiv in October. The German Foreign Ministry would oppose the recognition of the Holodomor as a genocide in the past years.
Earlier on Thursday, Ireland's Senat and Moldova's parliament also recognised the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as a genocide of the Ukrainian people.
On Wednesday, Romanian MPs and senators voted at a joint meeting on November 23 in favor of a declaration condemning the man-made famine (Holodomor) in Ukraine in 1932-1933 that was a result of the Soviet occupation.
As reported, US President Joe Biden made a statement honouring the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933.