3 September 2013
MEDIA RELEASE
Eugene Czolij re-elected for second term as President of Ukrainian World Congress
On 22 August 2013, delegates to the X Ukrainian World Congress re-elected Eugene Czolij for a second five-year term as President of the Ukrainian World Congress.
Eugene Czolij, an attorney by profession, was called to the Quebec (Canada) Bar in 1982 and is a senior partner at Lavery, de Billy, one of the largest law firms in Quebec, with more than 170 lawyers. His legal practice includes corporate and commercial litigation, shareholder oppression remedies, the insolvency of significant corporations, banking litigation and class action suits. He pleads before the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as all court levels in Quebec.
Eugene Czolij was first elected President of the Ukrainian World Congress in 2008. Throughout his first term of office he has dedicated himself to promoting Ukraine’s Euro-integration and the human and national rights of all Ukrainians, regardless of their country of residence.
