Joint Statement at the Holodomor Conference

Per-Kaare Holdal 11 October 2023

Joint Statement at the Holodomor Conference in Oslo on the 30 Aug 2023

At the Holodomor Conference in Oslo the 30 Aug 2023 most of the delegates signed a joint statement and urged the Norwegian Government to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide.

The first to sign the document were the members of the Norwegian Parliament Ola Elvestuen from the Liberal Party (Venstre) and Rasmus Hansson from the Green Party (MDG).


Ola Elvestuen from the Liberal Party (Venstre) signing the Joint Statement		Rasmus Hansson from the Green Party (MDG) signed the Joint Statement


The Joint Statement (pdf)
The mayor of Lyngdal, Jan Kristensen signed the Joint Statement and urged the Norwegian Government to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide. Lyngdal was the first Norwegian municipality who recognized Holodomor as a genocide on the Ukrainian people.
This Joint Statement is sent to all political parties at the Norwegian Parliament, the Norwegian Government and the Ukrainian Embassy in Norway. Notice that the Holodomor has been recognized as genocide by the parliaments of 28 countries, according to the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory: Australia Belgium Bulgaria Canada Colombia Croatia Czech Republic Ecuador Estonia Georgia Iceland Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Mexico Moldova Germany Paraguay Peru Poland Portugal Romania Slovenia Slovakia Great Britain United States Hungary France United States. But not Norway.....