UNIT 5 THE SOVIET PERIOD

1944 – 1990

1. What do you know about the restoration the Ukrainian People’s

Commissariat of Foreign Affairs in 1944? Why did it happen? What

field did Ukraine’s international activities in 1944–1990 mostly concentrate

in? Why? What possibilities did the new situation provide

for Ukraine? Was Ukraine among the founding member of the UN?

What advantages did it give to Ukraine? Do you know any proposals

or initiatives Ukrainian representatives put forward at the UN? What

other international organizations did Ukraine become a member of?

Has Ukraine ever been a member of the UN Security Council? When?

What UN Councils, Boards and Com mittees has Ukraine been elected

to? What problem solutions have Ukrainian representatives been especially

active in? Ukrainian diplomats have occupied what high posts at

the UN and other international organizations?

2. You are going to read a text about the Ukrainian diplomacy during

the second phase of the Soviet period (1944 – 1990). Which of the following

concepts can you expect in the text? Why or why not?

adopt a law limited possibility UN Charter health disarmament

elaboration UN Security Council put forward inform illiteracy

transformation global community developing countries refu gee staff training

consideration maintenance of peace rules of procedure migrants meteorology

colonialism Union-Republican Gen eral Assembly space prohibition

Chornobyl global and regional draft resolutions proposal chemical weapons

adopt decrees international problems environment justice non-use of force

establishment ac quire experience human rights postal restore the rights

concentrate on multilateral diplomacy displaced persons apartheid delegate powers

participation founding member non-governmental economy United Nations

mercenaries non-permanent member industrialization involved pass resolutions

UNESCO diplomatic corps professionalism UN posts non-militarization

3. You are going to read a text about the Ukrainian diplomacy during

the second phase of the Soviet period (1944–1990). Look for the answers

to the questions in activities 1–2 while you are reading.

On 1 February 1944, a session of the USSR Supreme Council adopted

a Law “On Delegat ing Powers in the Field of Foreign Affairs

to the Un ion Republics and the Resulting Transformation of the

People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs from the All-Union into a Union-

Republican People’s Com missariat”. This act formally restored the rights of

the Union republics in the field of foreign policy after a twenty-year break.

On 5 February 1944, the Politburo of the Central Com mittee of the C(B)PU

passed resolutions and the Pre sidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the UkrSSR

adopted decrees on the establishment of the Ukrainian PCFA.