According to the political scientists Professor Natalia Chaban and Vlag Vernygora, connections between New Zealand and Ukraine prior to 1991 were "largely anecdotal and, when and if, original, mostly incomplete."

One Poltava-born man named Anton Omelchenko, who visited Christchurch in 1910, was responsible for supplying horses to Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica.

[4] According to the 2006 New Zealand census, 1,152 residents of the country declared Ukraine to be the place of their birth, and a further 672 inhabitants to consider themselves to be Ukrainian by ethnicity.

Ukrainian New Zealanders Nataliya Poshyvaylo-Tower and Alex Melnychuk organised two solidarity demonstrations in Auckland and Christchurch, which attracted 46 people.

Mr Stefan Romaniw OAM, chairman, AFUO, Secretary General, World Congress of Ukrainians, congratulated UANZ with this event.

Therefore, the main task for UANZ was not simply to provide New Zealanders with relevant information about Holodomor, but to show and prove that the strong Ukrainian people, despite the historical challenges and great number of victims, managed to survive and now continues to adequately build their own state.