Subcarpathian Rus
Podkarpatska Rus

June 27, 2009 has taken place a scientific-practical conference on the «64th anniversary of the tragedy of the Ruthenian nation because of the illegal « Treaty on Transcarpathian Ukraine ».
Participants of the conference, representatives of science, social organizations and political parties, after hearing the reports, adopted a resolution based on the following facts:
1. Ruthenian political nation, which lived on its national territory within Hungary, in December 21, 1918 has received national autonomy with the name [Rusca Strana] - Ruthenian state

2. Autonomous Territories of the “Ruthenians to the south of the Carpathians“, in accordance with Saint-Germaine peace treaty in August 10, 1919 seceded from Hungary, and became part of Czechoslovakia on the rights of the broadest autonomy.

The Constitution of Czechoslovak Republic in 1920 affirmed its constitutional status.

3. Republic of Subcarpathian Rus, (as well as Slovakia), according to Constitutional Law of the Czechoslovak Republic number 328, of November 22, 1938, received the advanced status of autonomy with the right to choose the Ruthenian national parliament, national Subcarpathian Ruthenian citizenship (which automatically granted citizenship of Czechoslovak Republic), and other attributes of a sovereign republic within the Federal CHSR.
Have been established Ruthenian national schools, Ruthenian language has become official, along with the Czech.

4. On March 15, 1939, [SOYM] of the Subcarpathian Ruthenia (under pressure from Berlin), proclaimed the sovereignty of the Republic of Subcarpathian Rus within CHSR with the name of Carpathian Ukraine in the part of its territory (without Uzhgorod and district, Mukachevo and district, Beregovo and district).

5. On November 26, 1944, the First Congress of People's Committees in Mukachevo proclaimed the new name of the country «Transcarpathian Ukraine» (which already included Uzhgorod and district, Mukachevo and district, and Beregovo and district ), and the succession of Transcarpathian Ukraine - Subcarpathian Ruthenia from the Federal Czechoslovak Republic.

6. In June 29, 1945 Czechoslovak Republic and the USSR signed the illicit treaty «On Transcarpathian Ukraine», in the absence of representatives of the legitimate authorities of the Republic Subcarpathian Rus.

Conference participants stated that the sovereign Subcarpathian Rus-Transcarpathian Ukraine was brutally annexed by the Soviet Union through the illegal Firlinger-Molotov treaty «On Transcarpathian Ukraine».

In addition, the authorities of the Soviet Union did not intend to comply with its (the treaty) terms, illegally lowering the status of Subcarpathian Ruthenia to an ordinary administrative Transcarpathian region.

The participants of the conference agreed on the following:

1. To request the State Duma of the Russian Federation and the Parliament of the Czech Republic, as the successors of the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, to denounce the treaty of June 29, 1945, admitting it was illegal and void.

2. To ask the parliaments of Russia and the Czech Republic, as well as the Transcarpathian Regional Council to restore pre-Soviet status of the Republic of Subcarpathian Rus - autonomous until 1944, and sovereign from November 26, 1944 to January 22, 1946.

3. To Demand from the Ukrainian authorities an immediate implementation of the results of the public referendum- plebiscite of the 1 December, 1991 on the resumption of pre-Soviet autonomous status of Transcarpathia (renewed status of the Ruthenian autonomy can not be lesser than the one existed until June 29, 1945).

4. To Request SR [SOYM] , the European National Congress of the Subcarpathian Ruthenia and other Ruthenian organizations, social organizations and political parties to take a political decision on supporting the resumption of the pre-Soviet autonomous status of the Ruthenian region of Transcarpathia , giving a legal assessment of Stalin's illegal treaty «On Transcarpathian Ukraine», and to support the appeal to the relevant authorities of the legal successors of the USSR and CHSR, and Transcarpathian Regional Council.

5. To send materials of the conference to the media.

Conference Chairman:
The President of the Third European National Congress of Subcarpathian Ruthenia
The President of the [SOYM] of Subcarpathian Ruthenia
Archpriest Dimitry Sidor

Secretary:
Prof. PhD. I. Krivsky

International Carpathian Institute
Transcarpathian - Subcarpathian Rus
Regional Cyril and Methodius Society
7, Cyril and Methodius Sq., Uzhgorod, Ukraine, 88005

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