Embassy Events 2007
U.S. Committed to Combating Anti-Semitism
5 February 2007
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| State Department |
The U.S. Government is committed to monitoring and combating anti-Semitism
throughout the world as an important human rights and religious freedom issue.
In this regard, the U.S. Government deplores the activities,
publications and programs of the Inter-regional Academy for Personnel
Management, a private Ukrainian University known as MAUP, which promotes ethnic
hatred and religious intolerance.
MAUP, which has again been in the news
recently, receives significant funding from the Governments of Iran, Syria and
Libya, among others, and continues to be the most persistent anti-Semitic
presence in the Ukraine. The U.S. Department of State has expressed this concern
publicly in its annual Religious
Freedom Report presented to Congress. For the last two years (2004 and
2005) the State Department’s Human
Rights Reports singled out MAUP for its reprehensible activities in
promoting anti-Semitism.
The Government of Ukraine has also rejected
MAUP's promotion of hatred and intolerance. Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko
and former Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk, who previously served on MAUP's
Board of Advisors, resigned in disagreement with MAUP’s promotion of
anti-Semitism.
The U.S. Government views with concern and regret actions
that lend support to MAUP's efforts to gain international credibility and
acceptance.
