Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin has expressed gratitude to the Portuguese parliament for the recognition of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as genocide.
”We express our gratitude to the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal for the recognition of genocide in Ukraine in 1932-1933 and commemoration of the Holodomor victims,” the minister tweeted.
Earlier, on March 3, the Portuguese parliament adopted a document on the recognition of the Holodomor in Ukraine as genocide.
The document condemns the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933 and recognizes it as genocide committed by Joseph ”Stalin`s totalitarian communist regime, which caused deaths of seven million Ukrainian citizens.”
