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ABN AT THE 20TH WACL CONFERENCE

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National representatives, from left to right: Joe Pavlovic (Croatia). Arvo Horm (Estonia), Mykola Szafowal (Ukraine), Avo Piirisild (Estonia), Srecko psenicnik Croatia), John Halmaghi (Rumania), Orest Sreciw (Ukraine). Zacharia Angel (Rumania), John Ivica Kokic (Croatia), Nino Alschibaja (Georgia), Ivan Bankovski (Bulgaria), Slava Stelsko (Ukraine), Roksolana Stoyko-Lozynsky (Ukraine), Bohdanna Krushelnyckyj (Ukraine).

The 20th conference of the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) took place in Taipei, Taiwan, the Republic of China from August 15-23, 1987. Within the framework of the WACL conference, three other conferences were incorporated, namely, the 3rd conference of the World Youth Freedom League (WYFL); the 33rd conference of the Asian Pacific Anti-Communist League (APACL) and the 7th conference of the Asian Pacific Youth Freedom League (APYFL).471 representatives from 113 nations participated in the conference.

WACL was founded in 1967. It was initiated in 1958 in Mexico City by ABN president Yaroslav Stetsko, the president of the Asian Anti-Communist League, Dr. Ku Cheng-kang, and the chairman of the Inter-American Confederacy for the Defense of the Continent Dr. Jorge Pricto Laurens. Yaroslav Stetsko, the Prime Minister of the Ukrainian National Government was a long time member of the WACL Executive Board. After his death, at the 19th WACL conference in Luxembourg, Mrs. Slava Stetsko, the current ABN president, was elected a member of the Executive Board.

The ABN has been a member organization of WACL from the beginning, and has been represented at all the previous 19 WACL conferences. The ABN delegation at the 20th conference, headed by its president, Slava Stetsko included delegations of the

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