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5. To introduce Ukrainian into national,
secondary and higher school;
6. To free captive Ukrainians of Halychyna
and send them back home;
P.G. rejected the demands, motivating the
rejection by the following reasons:
1) C.C. was not elected by way of all-
Ukrainian vote and, thus, is not to be
considered to have the right to speak on
behalf of all Ukrainian people;
2) The proclamation of autonomy may cause
a line of territorial and other
misunderstandings;
3) The issue of future administrative structure
of the Russian republic has to be resolved at
the Constituent Assembly at the end of the
year, etc.
May, 28 – The first All-Ukrainian Peasant Congress.
June, 2 (June, Nearly 2200 delegates participated. They
10-15) 1917 represented 9 Ukrainian provinces. The main
issue of the congress was the land issue and
village self-government. The programme goal
was to abolish private land ownership and its
transfer to Ukrainian land reserves. The right
to use land was to be given only to those
people, who cultivated it according to
established land regulations, which were less
than consumer ones. The Council of peasant
deputies was elected (134 members from 73
districts) and the executive power organ, the
Central Committee of Peasant Union was
formed. It was resolved to include the Council
of peasant deputies into C.C. (134 members).

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