The meeting was joined by: Soviet dissident, Israeli statesman and politician of Ukrainian origin, Knesset member, chairman of the executive board of the Jewish Agency for Israel and chairman of the supervisory board of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center Natan Sharansky; Canadian politician, parliamentarian, ex-Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada in 2003-2006 Irwin Cotler; Canadian investor, entrepreneur, human rights activist and head of the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights, who works in Ukraine, Jay Rosenzweig; President and CEO of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, member of the Canadian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Michael Levitt.