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UNIAN news agency, Kiev, Ukraine, in Ukrainian, 4 Mar 04
BBC Monitoring Service,UK, in English, Mar 04, 2004
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KIEV, 4 March: More than 150 MPs have signed a request to Pope John
Paul II for granting the patriarch status to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic
Church, the press service of the [centre-right] Ukrainian People's Party has
told UNIAN.
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[Passage omitted: MP Oleksa Hudyma says the atmosphere during the
signature-raising campaign was extremely friendly.]
Among the first MPs to sign the request to the pope were [leader of the
parliamentary faction of the propresidential United Social Democratic Party
of Ukraine] Leonid Kravchuk, Ivan Plyushch, [leader of the opposition Our
Ukraine bloc] Viktor Yushchenko, Yuriy Kostenko, [leader of the opposition
Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc] Yuliya Tymoshenko, Ihor Yukhnovskyy, Stepan
Havrysh, Viktor Pynzenyk, Valeriy Pustovoytenko, Anatoliy Matviyenko, Levko
Lukyanenko, Ivan Drach, Pavlo Movchan, Ivan Zayets and Petro Poroshenko.
The request was also backed up by the chairman and deputy chairman of the
Crimean Tatar Majlis [self-styled parliament], Ukrainian MPs Mustafa
Dzhemilyov and Refat Chubarov, as well as by the president of the Ukrainian
confederation of Jewish communities, Ukrainian MP Yevhen Chervonenko.
MP Oleksa Hudyma [who initiated the signature-raising campaign in
parliament] told the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Cardinal
Lyubomyr Huzar, that over 150 signatures of MPs were raised in the Ukrainian
parliament to support the request to Pope John Paul II for the patriarch
status to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the Ukrainian People's
Party's press service said.
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