By KYIV. Dec 1 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on Wednesday the German Bundestag’s recognition of the Holodomor of the 1930s as a genocide of the Ukrainian people not just a historical decision, but a principle in which "nothing is impossible."
"Germany’s recognition of the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people is not just a historic decision. This is an event that we have been told about for many years: this will never happen. Simply because it will not happen. But the principle of President Zelensky’s foreign policy is that nothing is impossible," Kuleba said on his Facebook on Wednesday evening.
According to him, many people worked on this decision at all levels, in particular, from the president to diplomats, experts and the public. Kuleba said that in the autumn of 2022 he had separate conversations with each democratic faction of the Bundestag. "Finally, there is a solution and I am deeply grateful to the deputies of Germany for this," he said.
Kuleba separately expressed his gratitude to German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. "For agreeing to visit the Holodomor memorial in Kyiv with me, for honoring the victims with a candle and experiencing this tragedy, and for the fact that after that the ministry she leads changed its mind and for the first time supported the recognition of the Holodomor as genocide," he said.
The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said "this step restores historical justice and honors the memory of millions of victims of the genocide that Stalin and his henchmen committed against our people."
"The world could not stop this crime then, but it can at least stop the Russian lies about it now and call it what it was: genocide," the minister said.
