UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT CALLS FOR NATIONAL RECONCILIATION.

President Leonid Kuchma yesterday called for reconciliation between leftist and rightist groups in Ukrainian society and between the former Red Army’s World War II veterans and the veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which resisted both Nazi and Soviet control of Ukraine during the war and afterward. Suggesting that reconciliation is possible "as they all fought against fascism," Kuchma proposed erecting a Reconciliation Cross memorial in Kiev. (Interfax-Ukraine, May 7)

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