Pan-American Ukrainian Conference
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Pan-American Ukrainian Conference (Пан-американська українська конференція; Pan-amerykanska ukrainska konferentsiia, or ПАУК; PAUK). A political umbrella organization representing Ukrainians in North and South America. It was founded on 18–22 November 1947 in New York by delegates of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, the Ukrainian Canadian Committee (which initiated the gathering), the Society of Friends of Ukrainian Culture in Brazil, and the United Ukrainian Committee in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its purpose was to encourage and co-ordinate support for Ukraine’s struggle for independence and to resist the spread of communism. Eventually the Ukrainian organizations in Venezuela and Chile joined PAUK. The presidium of the conference sat initially in Winnipeg and then in New York. PAUK organized the founding conference of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians in 1967 and then transferred its functions to the congress. Rev Vasyl Kushnir was repeatedly elected president of PAUK.
[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]