Comrade Pyotr Simonenko inaugurating the 44th Congress The 44th Congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine started in the Kiev October Palace in the capital city of Kiev on 18th June 2011. The congress will conclude on 19th June. The congress was opened by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Ukraine, head of the Communist faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Pyotr Simonenko. At the convention 634 delegates arrived.
In addition, Congress invited the members of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of Ukraine, the secretaries of regional committees, city,
district committees of the party, people's deputies of Ukraine, the editors of party papers. Among the invited representatives of NGOs left-wing, scientific, artistic, technical intelligentsia and some other friends as well as diplomatic corps.
At the rally came from 31 foreign delegation of Communist and workers' parties and other progressive political movements left orientation as part of 43 persons. The Congress is accredited by 127 representatives of Ukrainian and foreign mass media.
Delegates elected governing bodies of Congress - Presidium, Secretariat, editorial, credentials and counting commission.
The agenda of the 44th Congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine made the following questions:
1. The Political Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
2. Report of the Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
3. The new version of the program of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
4. On Amendments to the Constitution of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
5. Election of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
6. Election Central Control Commission of the Communist Party
