Scouting in Ukraine received World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) recognition in July 2008. The Eurasian Region headquarters is located on Ukrainian territory. 2008 WOSM recognition The World Scout Bureau received an application for membership of the World Organization from the National Organization of Scouts of Ukraine (NOSU). In accordance with the requirements of the Constitution of WOSM, the World Scout Committee considered this application at its meeting on 29 February-2 March 2008, and recommended that it be accepted. Under the terms of Article VI.2 of the WOSM Constitution, “if within three months the recommendation is unopposed or opposed by less than five percent of the Member Organizations”, NOSU was declared a Member, as the National Scout Organization of Ukraine, of the World Organization of the Scout Movement as from 1 July 2008. Ukrainian Scout organizations National Organization of Scouts of Ukraine, member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement; 4,650 individual members. This organization was founded by Plast, Sich and SPOK organizations so Ukrainian Scouts could be represented in WOSM; however these organizations still are separate and do not belong to NOSU. Membership in NOSU is individual for any Scout of Ukraine. Asotsiatsiya Haydiv Ukrayiny ("Association of Ukrainian Guides"), member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, with 968 members Asotsiatsiya Skautiv Ukraïni ("Association of Scouts of Ukraine" ASU, Ukrainian-speaking) ISKRA (Spark) Crimean Scout Association, supported by the Scouts de France Kárpátaljai Magyar Cserkészszövetség (KáMCSSZ), ethnic Hungarian Scouts in Ukraine linked to Magyar Cserkészszövetség Khar'kovskaya Oblastnaya Organizatsiya Skautov ("Kharkiv Oblast Organization of Scouts"/Харьковская Областная Организация Скаутов, Russian-speaking) Luhans'ka Oblasna Organizatsiya Skautiv ("Luhansk Oblast Organization of Scouts"/Луганська обласна Организация Скаутів, Ukrainian-speaking) Plast, the largest Scouting organization in Ukraine Chornomortsi, "Sailors of the Black Sea" Ulad Starshoho Plastunstva ("Order of Senior Scouting", Ukrainian Rovers) Vseukrajinska molodizhna gromadska organizatsiya "SPOK (Спілка піонерських організацій міста Києва/"Union of Pioneer Organizations of Kiev" 1990-1992, Спілка дитячих та юнацьких організацій міста Києва/"Union of the Children and Youth organizations of the City of Kyiv" 1993-2003, since 2003 the Всеукраїнська молодіжна громадська організація "СПОК"/All Ukrainian Youth Public Organization "SPOK") SPOK is an acrostic of the four words of the organization's motto (S – самостійність (samostijnist') independence, P – порядність (poryadnist') decency, O – оптимізм (optimizm) optimism, кмітливість (kmitlyvist') quick-wittedness) All-Ukrainian organization Sich (Січ) meaning Cossack fortress Ruthenian Girl and Boy Scouts (Rusyn Slavic minority, known as Русины, referred to as Carpatho-Rusyns and Rusniaks)