Per-Kaare Holdal
The 8th May commemoration organized by us at s2pU was both worthy and professionally good in Lyngdal.
Per-Kaare Holdal
On 8 May we mark the day of remembrance and reconciliation and victory over Nazism in the Second World War, amid a terrorist war from Russia. The world hoped - "Never again", but the tragedies are repeated. The hope and belief in victory, freedom, and peace for Ukraine will also be in focus.
Klokkergården
17.00 -Flowers and speech at the Ukrainian memorial by Knut Straume, UN Association (photo)
Lyngdal Municipal Council Hall
18.00 - Opening song by Celine Larsen and speech by Knut Straume, United Nations Association of Norway
18.15 - When peace came to Norway in 1945 - Magne Haugland, historian and author
18.25 - Journalists are important in the fight for freedom for Ukraine - Volodymyr Buha, Ukrainian Union of Journalists. Buha tells and shows a video about the journalists' union's role in the war in Ukraine, when the war broke out Ukrainian journalists had to adjust to everyday life as war reporters.
18.45 - Ukraine in a peaceful and democratic Europe - Maryna Rabinovych, postdoctoral fellow, Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder
19.15 - "Children from Ukraine" for 30 years - Dagfinn Kroslid
19.30 - From the Youth in Kryvyi Rih and Ukraine - Aurika Shvets
19.40 - Support to Kryvyi Rih, which has a Solidarity and Partnership Agreement with Lyngdal municipality - Per-Kaare Holdal, Support to the people of Ukraine
19.50 - Break
20.15 - Dialogue and questions to the speakers
- Introduction by business manager culture Jan Seland, Lyngdal municipality
21.00 - End
Opportunity to help contribute with money for truck shipping of aid to Ukraine.
Per-Kaare Holdal
Lyngdal's politicians by the committee for culture and co-creation have asked the administration with preparing a basis for establishing a friendship and cooperation agreement with the city and area of Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine.
Per-Kaare Holdal
19 February 2024 at 07:30 Have sent an invitation to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, has been invited to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Eastern Finnmark. Finnmark County Council confirms this in a press release.
Per-Kaare Holdal
Mayor Jan Kristensen, Lyngdal welcomed the guests: Chargé d'affaires at the Ukrainian Embassy in Oslo, dr. Liliya Honcharevych, the Mayor of Mykolajev, Oleksandr Senkevych, the Polish Ambassador to Norway, Iwona Woicka-Żuławska, and the Polish Counselor of the Embassy, Marcin Czech. Read more here