The foreign Ministry of Germany: Steinmeier did not ask to gloss over the massacre of the OUN-UPA
Angelina Timofeeva. The German foreign Ministry called fake "letter" of the Minister of foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier calling to gloss over "the Volyn massacre" of 1943, during which the militants of the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army brutally forcibly deprived of life in Western Ukraine from 30 to 100 thousand ethnic poles, said Last news authorized official of the Department.
before social networking was laid out a document that looks similar to a letter on official letterhead from the head of the German foreign Ministry, the Minister of culture and national heritage of Poland Ma?gorzata Omilanowska a petition to withdraw from UNESCO documents with information About the Volyn tragedy, to aid in the formation of a consolidated European position on the Ukrainian question.
in the document, for example, it is reported that the publication of information could have " a negative reaction from the Ukrainian authorities and residents."
"This letter is false," said the Commissioner of the German foreign Ministry.
The Ukrainian Parliament on April 9 passed the law "On legal status, and honoring the memory of participants of fight for independence of Ukraine in the twentieth century" and gave the right of its present social guarantees. Accepted legislative act Happy, for example, have provided organizations of the OUN-UPA status of fighters for Ukraine's independence.