KYIV, January 14 /UKRINFORM/. Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko has welcomed a verdict of the Kyiv Court of Appeals dated January 13 calling the leaders of the Soviet totalitarian rule guilty of genocide in Ukraine in 12932-33 and initiates establishing an international tribunal for communism crimes in Ukraine, guided by the charter of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (IMT) of 1946, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity of 1968, the Law of Ukraine on the Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine, Article 442 of Ukraine's Criminal Code, the presidential press-service has reported.

The head of state approached the leaders of East European countries suffered from the communist rules (Russia, Poland, Georgia, the Baltic states and others) with a proposal to sign an international treaty on the establishment of an international tribunal for communism crimes with the guidelines of its formation and activity and its charter.

As UKRINFORM reported, on January 13, the Kyiv Court of Appeals called the leaders of the Bolshevik totalitarian rule guilty of genocide in Ukraine in 12932-33 (Holodomor).

The Court established that Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovich, Postyshev, Kosior, Chubar and Khatayevich committed the crime of genocide pursuant to Part 1, Article 442 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, and closed the criminal proceedings on the basis of Item 8, Part 1, Article 6 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, because all of them are dead.

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