Translation:Unification Act

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Unification Act (I Accuse)
Universal of the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1919)
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Agreement between the Ukrainian People's Republic and West Ukrainian People's Republic on the former's annexation of the latter. Published in Kyiv's Sophia Square on 22 January 1919, its pronouncement is a holiday in modern Ukraine.

Directorate of the Ukrainian People's Republic4738456Unification Act (I Accuse)
Universal of the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic1919Wikisource

A UNIVERSAL,

DIRECTORATE OF THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC:

On behalf of the Ukrainian People's Republic:

The directorate shall notify the Ukrainian people about a great event in the history of our Ukrainian land.

On 3 January 1919, in the city of Stanislaviv, the Ukrainian National Council of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, expressing the will of all Ukrainians of the former Austrian Empire and acting as their highest legislator, solemnly proclaimed the unification of the West Ukrainian People's Republic with the Dnieper Ukrainian People's Republic to become a unified single sovereign people's republic.

Welcoming with great happiness this historic step of our western brothers, the Directorate of the Ukrainian People's Republic decided to accept unification, and to implement it on the terms specified in the Resolution of the West Ukrainian People's Republic dated 3 January 1919.

From now on, the parts of the once-united Ukraine, which were separated for centuries — the West Ukrainian People's Republic / Halychyna, Bukovyna and Hungarian Ukraine / and the great Dnieper Ukraine — have become one nation.

The centuries-long dreams that the best sons of Ukraine lived with and died for have thus finally come true.

From now on, the Ukrainian People's Republic is present, existing unified and independent.

And from today onwards, liberated by the impulse of their own might, Ukrainians now have the chance to build up an independent and undivided Ukrainian nation all for the good and happiness of all the people of Ukraine.

Kyiv, 22 January 1919

For the Directorate:

Chairman of the Directorate V. Vynnychenko

Members of the Directorate S. Petliura, P. Andriievskyi, A. Makarenko

Member-Secretary F. Shvets

Director of Affairs of the Directorate I. I. Kraskovskyi

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