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HISTORY

Fr. Dr. Wasyl Kushnir

1973-1978, 1967-1969

Fr. Dr. Wasyl Kushnir
Joseph Lesawyer

1969-1971

Joseph Lesawyer
Antin Melnyk

1971-1973

Antin Melnyk
Mykola Plaviuk

1978-1981

Mykola Plaviuk
Ivan Bazarko

I981-1983

Ivan Bazarko
Peter Savaryn

1983-1988

Peter Savaryn
Yuri Shymko

1988-1993

Yuri Shymko
Dr. Dmytro Cipywnyk

1993-1998

Dr. Dmytro Cipywnyk
Lozynskyj

1998-2008

Dr. Askold S. Lozynskyj

2008-2018

Eugene Czolij

2018-now

Paul Grod
  • І Congress WCFU November 12-19, 1967 New York, USA
  • І Congress WCFU November 12-19, 1967 New York, USA
  • ІІ Congress WCFU November 1-4, 1973 Toronto, Canada
  • ІІІ Congress WCFU November 23-26, 1978 New York, USA
  • ІV Congress WCFU November 30 – December 4,1983 Toronto, Canada
  • V Congress WCFU November 22-27, 1988 Toronto, Canada
  • VI Congress WCFU November 2-7, 1993 Toronto, Canada
  • VII Congress UWC December 2-7, 1998 Toronto, Canada
  • VIII Congress UWC August 18-21, 2003 Kyiv, Ukraine
  • ІХ Congress UWC August 20-22, 2008 Kyiv, Ukraine
  • X Congress UWC August 20-22, 2013 Lviv, Ukraine
  • XI Congress UWC November 24-27, 2018 Kyiv, Ukraine
  • XII Congress UWC October 23, 2023, online 

Ukrainian World Congresses were held every five (5) years before 2018. Prior to 1993, the Ukrainian World Congress was known as the World Congress of Free Ukrainians.

IX UKRAINIAN WORLD CONGRESS

The information about the IX UWC Congress is
available only in Ukrainian

2024

Annual General Meeting. Virtually

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2021

Annual General Meeting. Virtually

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2020

Annual General Meeting. Virtually

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2019

Annual General Meeting. Berlin

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Documents

Report collection

2017

Annual General Meeting. Kyiv

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Documents

Meeting Materials

2016

Annual General Meeting. Kyiv

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2015

Annual General Meeting. Madrid

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2014

Annual General Meeting. Kyiv

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INTERNATIONAL UWC EVENTS COMMEMORATING ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2017

In 2017 the UWC, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary organized a round table, the Inaugural Economic Forum and five International Conferences to analyze 50 years of activity and develop a roadmap for the future, particularly on current issues with respect to support for Ukraine in defending its territorial integrity and its ongoing European and Euro-Atlantic integration.

  • Roundtable on the topic “UWC at 50 and beyond: The Australian context” (in cooperation with the Mykola Zerov Centre for Ukrainian Studies at Monash University and the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organizations), 10 August 2017 in Melbourne, Australia;
  • Inaugural Economic Forum: “Support for the economic development of Ukraine: Cooperation between the Ukrainian Government and Diaspora” (in cooperation with the US-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce and Canada‑Ukraine Chamber of Commerce), 25 August 2017, Kyiv, Ukraine;
  • International Conference “UWC at 50 and Beyond: The European Context” (in cooperation with the International Institute for Education, Culture and Diaspora Relations, Lviv Polytechnic National University), 28 August 2017, Lviv, Ukraine;
  • International Conference “UWC at 50 and Beyond: The North American Vector” (in cooperation with the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America), 16 September 2017, New York, USA;
  • International Conference “UWC at 50 and Beyond: The South American Vector” (in cooperation with the Ukrainian-Brazilian Central Representation), 30 September 2017, Curitiba, Brazil;
  • International Conference “UWC at 50 and Beyond: European and Euro-Atlantic Forum” (in cooperation with the Association of Ukrainians in Belgium), 7 November 2017, Brussels, Belgium; and
  • International Conference “UWC at 50 and Beyond: The Roadmap” (in cooperation with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress), 10-11 November 2017, Toronto, Canada.

THE HISTORY OF THE UWC