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12.09.2009: Resolution of the international scientific-practical conference “Prospects for the international recognition of new states in post-Soviet space."
Subcarpathian Ruthenia, September 12, 2009

To celebrate the landmark event in the fate of the Ruthenian people - the 90th anniversary of Saint-Germain Peace Treaty, the Government of the Subcarpathian Ruthenia on September 12, 2009, carried out International Scientific and Practical Conference on the "Prospects for the international recognition of new states in post-Soviet space."

The conference brought together scholars, political scientists, and experts from the Subcarpathian Ruthenia, Republic of Transnistria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.

The conference drew world attention to the prospects of possible unique ways of the recognition of new state formations. If in the 20th century the attention of the democratic society was focused on the protection of human rights, at the present stage we see it appropriate to shift accents to protection of the rights of the peoples, which in itself does not exclude the protection of the individual rights of human.

Any talks of human rights become meaningless, or are of speculative nature, if they ignore the rights of the people, i.e. human right to ethnic and civic identity in the socio-political and cultural sense.

Human rights and the rights of the people not only do not conflict, but mutually complement each other and cannot exist without each other.
The conference adopted the following resolution:

RESOLUTION

1. International Scientific and Practical Conference recommends that governments of the unrecognized new territorial entities primarily draw bilateral and multilateral agreements on mutual recognition, which all the countries and peoples can freely join. This path could be universal, - not only for the post-Soviet space, but also for all peace-loving and democratic societies, which have started to build their statehood.

2. Proposed by the Government of the Republic of Subcarpathian Ruthenia, the Ruthenian conception deserves close attention. The conception is based on a pragmatic and unambiguous vision, with a systematic approach to solving the problems of near and distant future in the political, socio-economic and legal spheres.

3. It is necessary to draw the attention of international institutions, that Ukraine does not have the act of ratification of the treaty of 1945 on "Carpathian Ukraine", which raises doubts about the legitimacy of the overall regency of Ukraine in the territory of the Subcarpathian Ruthenia.

4. On the basis of self-determination, provided to the Ruthenians by the international community in 1919, in December 1991 was held a referendum on the political future of the people. 78% of voters favoured joining of the Subcarpathian Ruthenia to Ukraine with the status of national self-governing territory. So far, the results of the referendum of 1991 are not included in the Constitution of Ukraine.

5. According to participants, today's practice of non-recognition is, in fact, a neo-colonial discrimination against small nations.

6. The materials of the conference should be also presented to the World Council of the Subcarpathian Ruthenians.

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