Honorary Consulate of Ukraine was opened in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

On April 9-12, 2008, Ambassador Oleh Shamshur visited Salt Lake Сity (Utah) to open there the Honorary Consulate of Ukraine headed by US businessman and a long standing friend of Ukraine Jonathan Kevin Friedman.

Ukraine’s Ambassador met with Utah Vice-Governor Gerry Herbert to discuss economic and humanitarian cooperation between Ukraine and Utah. A particular emphasis was also placed on the International torch-relay march to commemorate millions of victims of the Ukrainian Holodomor (famine-genocide) of 1932-33. This symbolic candle will travel the United States in the month of May, and Salt Lake City will be one of the recipients of this unquenchable flame.

Oleh Shamshur met also with the leaders of Later Days Saints Church and Brigham Young University faculty and gave a lecture on present and future of Ukrainian-American relations at Utah Valley University.