Prime Minister

Yuliya V. Tymoshenko

Dear Mrs Tymoshenko,

we have by this time written You three letters (5 Oct, 28 Oct and 23 Dec 2009), wherein we informed You about religious discrimination on the part of the State Committee of Ukraine on Matters of Nationalities and Religions and applied to You for registration of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church (UOGCC). This is our fourth letter. It is now more than 165 days since we started a manifestation with a placard in front of the Regional Council in Lvov with a petition for legal registration.

We demonstrated twice in front of the Cabinet of Ministers, demanding that religious discrimination be stopped, and today (27th-28th January 2010) we stand in front of the Cabinet for the third time.

On 19th January 2010 the Administrative District Court in Lvov resolved that the State Committee of Ukraine on Matters of Nationalities and Religions had acted against the law concerning our matter. You are fully responsible for this unlawfulness on the part of the State Committee of Ukraine on Matters of Nationalities and Religions.

Dear Mrs Tymoshenko, on 25th January 2010 we filed already the third application with the State Committee of Ukraine on Matters of Nationalities and Religions for registration of the UOGCC, attaching the relevant documents necessary for this registration.

We would like to ask You to support our lawful application for registration of the UOGCC.

Card. L. Husar and his adherents are trying every possible means in order to influence state employees at the highest posts to act against the law.

We do believe that You give priority to the laws of Ukraine over personal interests of Card. L. Husar and his people.

Yours respectfully,

+ Markian V. Hitiuk, OSBMr

Secretary of the Synod of UOGCC

Lvov, 25th January 2010

Copies to:

-                     V. F. Yanukovych

-                     Members of the Parliament of Ukraine

-                     Mass media in Ukraine and abroad

Address: Synod of the UOGCC, 3 Sosnova St., Lvov - Bryukhovychi, 79491, Ukraine

www.uogcc.org.ua, www.community.org.ua; pidhirci.community@gmail.com