44th congress of Communist party of Ukraine concludes

Comrade Petro Symonenko re-elected party General Secretary

 
The 44th Congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine concluded on 19th June 2011. On this day, the delegates adopted a new version of the Party Program and made changes to the Charter of the Communist Party. The congress also elected the Party's leading bodies - the Central Committee and Central Control Commission of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
The Communist Party of Ukraine re-elected Petro Symonenko as First Secretary of the Central Committee. The congress elected Ihor Alekseyev as Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Heorhii Buiko and Volodymyr Oplachko were elected as secretaries of the Central Committee.

The congress elected the following members of the Presidium of the Central Committee: Adam Martyniuk, Valentyn Matveyev, Kateryna Samoilyk, Valerii Mishura, Mykola Shulha, Oleksii Baburin, Alla Aleksandrovska, Ihor Kaletnyk, Spiridon Kilinkarov, Oleksandr Prysiazhniuk, Petro Tsybenko, and Oleksandr Holub.

44 th Congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine begins in Kiev

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