German foreign minister welcomes efforts to declare Holodomor genocide - spokesperson


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  • Friday, 25 Nov 2022

FILE PHOTO: Annalena Baerbock, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, speaks at the COP27 climate summit in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 18, 2022. REUTERS/Emilie Madi

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Friday welcomed efforts in the country's parliament to declare the Holodomor, the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33, a genocide.

"She welcomes very much that there is a lot of support in the German parliament for this," a spokesperson for Baerbock told reporters.

The Holodomor was a result of Soviet leader Josef Stalin's efforts to collectivise agriculture and root out Ukraine's fledgling nationalist movement.

(Reporting by Sabine Siebold, editing by Rachel More)

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