15.5.2010. Full text of the resolution of the extended meeting of the World Council [Svitova Rada] of the Subcarpathian Ruthenians, Uzhgorod, May 20, 2010.

In Uzhhorod, in May 20, 2010, under the chairmanship of the President of the WCSR Vasily Dzhugan took place the extended meeting of the World Council [Svitova Rada] of the Subcarpathian Ruthenians.

The meeting was attended by chairmen of the associations of the Ruthenian organizations, scientists and experts in the field of human rights and freedoms of the Ruthenian political nation, and cultural activists. Members of the WCSR, who could not attend the meeting, were able to participate in the format of online conference.

Based on the resolutions of the second WCSR, the World Council of Subcarpathian Ruthenians put forward the following demands to the new Ukrainian authorities:

1. To include the results of the referendum of 1991 in the legal framework of Ukraine, indicating status of the Subcarpathian Ruthenia (Transcarpathian region) as a "special self-governing territory and as the legal subject of Ukraine +"
2. To stop immediately any persecutions of activists of the Ruthenian movement, and particularly, condemn the criminal proceedings against the spiritual leader of the Ruthenians father Dimytry Sidor, initiated by the former "Orange" government, as politically motivated.

3. To include Ruthenian language in the list of languages covered by the protection of the "European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages" ratified by Ukraine (on the official state level).
4. To express on the state level the official position of Ukraine concerning the adoption of the expected changes in the "Act of the Citizenship of Hungary +" by the Hungarian Parliament, in terms of granting Hungarian citizenship to all persons (living outside the country), possessing a basic knowledge of the Hungarian language and having ancestors, citizens of the Saint Stephan crown, first of all to indigenous people of the Subcarpathian Ruthenia.

5. The above requirements were expressed by the participants of the meeting primarily to stop the incitement of ethnic conflict, a focus of political instability, threats to peace and security in central Europe, started by the previous "Orange" Ukrainian authorities.

It was decided to apply separately to the World Russian People's Council, which will be held in May 24-25 in Moscow:
a) To express gratitude to the WRPC for the constant effective assistance and support of the Ruthenian people
b) To request the WRPC continue to promote the protection and spiritual and national revival of the Ruthenian people, as part of the Russian world.

The resolution was signed by:

the Chairman of the World Council of the SR, V. M. Dzhugan
and members of the World Council of the SR:
V. I. Mikulin, P. Getsko, I. Y. Petrovtsi, B. Y. Lakatos, Rev. D. Sidor, A. Onisko,

Y. Levchak, A. Matiko, and other chairmen of the Ruthenian organizations home and abroad .
Adopted unanimously, May 20, 2010, Uzhgorod.

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