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In 2015, the UN General Assembly proclaimed December 9 as the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of This Crime. This date was chosen because, on this day in 1948, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted. The purpose of this Day is to raise awareness of the Genocide Convention and its role in combating and preventing the crime of genocide, as defined in the Convention, and to commemorate and honor its victims.

Unfortunately, Ukraine lived through several genocides in the 20th century, the largest of which by the number of victims was the Holodomor. Our history also bears the scars of the Shoah, the genocide of the Krymchaks, the genocide of the Roma, and Sürgünlik — the genocide of the Crimean Tatars.

In the "thrice-cursed" year of 1933, the USA officially recognized the USSR. The government of the world's largest democracy at that time ignored the Ukrainians' pleas for help and the millions starved to death, choosing instead to cooperate with the organizer of the crime in the Kremlin. Later, James Mace, a US citizen and prominent researcher, would apologize for this conduct by the United States.

It is deeply disheartening that right now, representatives of official Washington are exerting pressure on the victim of aggression and genocide — Ukraine — to sign a peace deal at the cost of territorial concessions to the criminal, and are ready to normalize relations with Moscow.

In recent years, the axiom has been voiced many times: 

The current White House administration, in its "peace deal," appears ready to reward the criminal for the crime and develop relations with him, having discarded the duty under international law to protect the victim of genocide (which is easy to do, since they never officially recognized this crime as genocide, and the Budapest Memorandum was "forgiven" long ago).

Thus, the next cycle of genocidal actions against Ukraine in the future is being de facto blessed. And not only against Ukraine.

Is this what our countries and the world need?

Is this what the memory of genocide victims demands?