From the moment of establishment, the CDU Party has been giving special attention to development of inter-party dialogues and its work in international organizations.
On December 2, 2002 the Christian Democratic Union became a full member of the Centrist Democrat International, the international organization of political parties and organizations which based upon principles of Christian humanism.
In the year 2008, the CDU initiates consolidation of the Eastern European Christian Democrats. On October 24-25, 2008 the first international conference of the Eastern European Christian Democrats took place in Kyiv; representatives of Christian democratic parties of Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia participated in the conference. The conference resulted in signing the Memorandum of Cooperation and establishing the Eastern European Bureau of Christian Democrats Parties. The Bureau was aimed at consolidation of the Eastern European Christian Democrats and strengthening cooperation between them. Volodymyr Stretovych, head of the CDU of Ukraine, was elected head of the Bureau; while Yuriy Reshetnikov, deputy head of the CDU, was elected Executive Secretary of the Bureau.
On April 29, 2009, the Bureau of the Eastern European Christian Democratic Parties held a meeting in the framework of the Congress of the European People’s Party in Warsaw.
In June 2009, the CDU was accepted to the European Christian Political Movement, which unites Christian democratic parties of many European countries.
In autumn 2009, following the initiative of the CDU of Ukraine, the second international conference at the Bureau level in Armenia, which resulted in signing the document on establishing the Association of Christian Democrats of Eastern Europe. Khosrov Arutunian, head of the CDU of Armenia, was elected head of the Association; while Yuriy Reshetnikov, deputy head of the CDU, was elected Executive Secretary of the organization.
In September 2010, MPs of Ukraine Oksana Bilozir and Volodymyr Stretovych, members of the CDU Board, participated in the international conference “Christian Democracy in Eastern Europe: Ways of Development” which took place in Minsk.
The development of international party activity prompted other initiatives. Thus, in September 2009, following the initiative of the Christian Democratic Union of Youth, an international summer school was held. The school’s work resulted in establishment of the Eastern European Youth Initiative aimed at consolidating the Christian democratic youth of the region.
In January 2011, the first winter school of the ECPYN took place in Lviv. Participants from 89 countries (Ukraine Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia, Belarus, and Albania) discussed morality, politics, and principles of the Christian democracy.
Aiming at informing wide international community on activity of the CDU, the party has been publishing own newsletter in English since summer 2008; the newsletter is sent to the party’s international partners.
