JTA - 10.02.2002
Ukraine Says It Will Return Synagogues
Breaking NewsKYIV, UKRAINE (JTA) - Ukraine's president vowed to return 58 synagogues to the country's Jewish community. Leonid Kuchma made the commitment Tuesday at a meeting in Kiev with Ukrainian Jewish leaders and representatives of NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Eurasia. Forty-eight of the synagogues, which were confiscated by the Soviet regime, will be immediately returned, and 10 will be returned at a later date, according to Ukraine's chief rabbi, Ya'akov Dov Bleich. The meeting took place amid increasing international pressure on Kuchma, whom the U.S. State Department suspects of having approved a sale of a radar system to Iraq in violation of U.N. sanctions.
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