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In 60ies the Ukrainian Peace Council was the initiator of the famous Dartmouth meetings which have marked the beginning of the relaxation in Soviet-American relations. Two of five of these meetings were held in Ukraine. During the years of perestroika they were the initiators of Ukrainian-American expeditions, peace cruises.
The Ukrainian Peace Council was one of the first organizations that began the enlightenment of the Chornobyl NPP catastrophe, insisted on openness of this event and was strongly against the erection of a nuclear power plant in Chygyryn and the construction of Dunai-Dnirpo (Danube - Dnieper) canal. Together with the Ukrainian Culture Fund they demanded the prohibition of building up Khortytsya, nature reserve in Kaniv. On the Ukrainian Peace Council’s initiative and that of the organization “Zelenyy Svit” (“The Green World”) there was launched a large scale environmental safety company. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine had called a session on this issue and owing to the insistent request of the Peace Council initiated the forming of a proper ministry.
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There had been held dozens of press-conferences concerning the increase of the sickness rate of children; numerous and gross violations of the Ukrainian legislation concerning the environmental protection, energy issues and precarious condition of the Chernobyl NPP containment had been exposed. In the course of the conference conducted in March 1991 there was assigned the action program, one of which was holding of the seminar “Eurochornobyl – 2” together with the ministry of public health and the organization “Zelenyy Svit”. On the UPC’s initiative in schools of Ukraine have appeared Chornobyl lessons which are held each April.
Also the program “Children educational exchange”, first established by the Peace Council, has made a successful headway and became very popular. Nowadays many other organizations have adopted these practices.
At the beginning of the 90ies there were held international peace cruises along the Dnieper, Ukrainian-American expeditions for peace; very fruitful was the co-operation with the American organization “Ukraine-USA”, “Bridges to Peace” and many others.
During a long period of time there were acquired contacts with many foreign peacemaking and social organizations in co-operation with which the UPC insisted on moratorium on nuclear and chemical weapons tests.
Collaboration with such organizations gave the UPC an opportunity to make healthier nearly 10 thousand children on a charitable basis. In the improvement of the children's health took part such countries as Holland, Greece, Ireland, Malta, Germany, Slovakia, France, and Switzerland. UPC also managed to supply Ukraine with humanitarian medicines to the sum of nearly $13 million.
In 2006 the Ukrainian Peace Council celebrated its 55th anniversary.
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