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  • 2008.07.04
    Ukrainian President meets UEFA President
    President Viktor Yushchenko met Michel Platini, President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the presidential press-service reports. Viktor Yushchenko noted he considers Platini's visit to Kyiv as demonstration of support to Ukraine in its right to host Euro-2012. The Ukrainian President stressed that Euro-2012 for Ukraine - is one of the state's national priorities. "Ukraine appreciates UEFA's decision to hold the Euro-2012 finals in Ukraine. An efficient holding of Euro-2012 in Ukraine - is a matter of honor for the state, for me personally," he said.


  • 2008.07.03
    OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopts resolution on famine in Ukraine
    The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) "strongly encourages all parliaments to adopt acts regarding recognition of the Holodomor" of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, according to a resolution passed during a plenary meeting of the assembly's 17th annual session on July 3. The Famine of 1932-1933 embraced numerous regions in the Soviet Union, as well as Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus. Certain Ukrainian politicians considered the famine to be genocide against the Ukrainian people and placed responsibility for this on central authorities.


  • 2008.07.02
    GUAM prospects optimistic as never before, says Ukrainian president
    Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko praised the development of the GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development during a joint press conference by the presidents of Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Georgia and Azerbaijan. "These two days of negotiations starting with Baku confirm that a project of this international organization looks optimistic as never before," the president said, UKRINFORM reported citing the president's press service.


  • 2008.07.01
    Ukrainian, Azeri presidents confirm Odesa-Brody oil pipeline to be shortly filled with process oil
    The Odesa-Brody oil pipeline will be filled with process oil in the near future. The statement to this effect was made by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and his Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev at a news conference following bilateral talks in Baku, UKRINFORM correspondent reported with reference to the presidential web-site.


  • 2008.06.30
    Prime Minister Tymoshenko says Ukrainian, Russian governments - reliable partners, open for further cooperation
    Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko considers that the Ukrainian and Russian governments are reliable partners and open for further cooperation, she said in Moscow at a joint news conference with Russian Premier Vladimir Putin, UKRINFORM reported with reference to the governmental web-site.


  • 2008.06.26
    Justice Minister proposes Government and Vanco Company "to balance interests" in order to avoid hearing at Stockholm arbitration
    Interests of the Government and Vanco should be balanced in order to avoid court actions on the part of this company versus Ukraine, Justice Minister Mykola Onishchuk told a press conference. According to N. Onishchuk, nobody can make the Cabinet to fulfill the terms of the agreement with this company concluded against its will. But risks should be also taken into consideration that may arise in case of the agreement termination related to violation of obligations by another party. Vanco then may demand satisfaction of its interests in the court, including payment of damages due to nonfulfillment of the agreement, the minister said.


  • 2008.06.26
    Ukraine, Latvia presidents note high level of bilateral dialogue
    The level of Ukrainian - Latvian dialogue demonstrates high political trust, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said during his talks with Latvian President Valdis Zatlers, who is staying on a state visit in Kyiv. Yushchenko pointed out the importance for Ukraine of Latvia's support for Ukraine's European and Euroatlantic policy. He reminded that it was also not easy for Latvia to obtain membership in the European Union and NATO, but on the path to this target it reached public understanding and dialogue of political forces. "This way Ukraine is passing now, and I am convinced of success on this question," Yushchenko said.


  • 2008.06.25
    Ukraine, Portugal sign road map 2008-2010, agree on military cooperation, organization of air service
    In frames of a visit of President Viktor Yushchenko to Lisbon, Ukraine and Portugal signed a Road Map of Ukraine-Portugal Relations 2008-2010, as well as Air Service Agreement, Crime Control Agreement and Military Cooperation Agreement. The Air Service Agreement creates a bilateral contract-legal frame for air transport cooperation. The instrument outlines a procedure of the international flight regulation within exploitation air lines between Ukraine and Portugal


  • 2008.06.23
    President calls relations with Portugal dynamic and says about supporting concept of Unified European Energy Market by country
    President Viktor Yushchenko, who is on an official visit to Lisbon, called Ukrainian-Portuguese bilateral relations as "dynamic" ones. At a meeting with Portugal President Anibal Cavaco Silva, held today, Viktor Yushchenko discussed trade-economic cooperation between Ukraine and Portugal, cooperation in humanitarian and social spheres, perspectives of Ukraine's European and Euro-Atlantic integration. He noted permanent support of Ukraine by the Portugal's party in those issues.


  • 2008.06.20
    Ukraine may help EU to solve foodstuffs crisis, energy resources price hike - Yulia Tymoshenko
    Ukraine may help the European Union to solve such crucial issues as overcoming foodstuffs crisis and rise in prices of energy resources, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said this at a joint news conference with leader of the European People's Party (EPP) Wilfried Martens. "Expecting this year crops yield 2-3 times greater, Ukraine may make its considerable contribution to supplying the EU countries with foodstuffs," she said.


  • 2008.06.17
    Ukraine stands for decision-making on NATO MAP in 2008 - President Yushchenko
    Ukraine proceeds from the fact that decision on Ukraine's joining NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) should be made in 2008, President Viktor Yushchenko told a joint news conference in Kyiv with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. Issues on Ukraine's joining MAP and its direct NATO accession should be clearly delimited, Yushchenko stressed.


  • 2008.06.13
    Yushchenko says effectiveness of military-industrial complex is national policy priority
    The question of effectiveness of Ukraine's military-industrial complex should remain one of the most important priorities for national policies of the state, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said during the opening of a council with chief designers of the complex's enterprises in Dnipropetrovsk on Friday, June 13, the presidential press service reported.The head of state said that there currently exist a number of unresolved problems on this issue.


  • 2008.06.10
    International tendencies are favorable to Ukrainian farmers, Yushchenko says
    The latest tendencies observed in the world agrarian markets can help Ukrainian peasants make a good progress and become competitive the world over, President Viktor Yushchenko said during his visit to the Agro-2008 international fair exhibition. "As regards plant growing, we have a chance to greatly boost profitability of each crop, and take the leading roles," the head of state said.


  • 2008.06.06
    Yushchenko says Ukraine will execute all clauses of agreement on temporary stay of Russian Black Sea Fleet in country
    Ukraine is ready to hold an equitable dialogue on sensible issues with Russia, President Viktor Yushchenko told the press, following his meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in St. Petersburg on Friday. Yushchenko stressed that "there were no ultimatums during our talks." "We stressed the need for a lively and close interstate dialogue. We expressed readiness and openness to such a dialogue," he said.


  • 2008.06.05
    Yushchenko names "political blunder" attempts to revise nature of Ukraine-Russia relations
    President Viktor Yushchenko named today "a political blunder" the attempts to revise the nature of relations between Ukraine and Russia. "We see organization of our bilateral Ukraine-Russia relations as friendly alone. We proceed from the fact that the status of these relations is the highest one", V. Yushchenko told a news conference in Ljubljana in view of today's address of the Russian State Duma to the Russian president and government offering Russia to consider "the accelerated steps" made by Ukraine towards NATO accession "as actual unilateral withdrawal of Ukraine" from the Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership Agreement between Ukraine and Russia and to consider the issue on Russia's withdrawal from the document is case of such steps


  • 2008.06.02
    International courts find no violation from Ukraine regarding foreign investors
    As of June 2008, international courts examined 6 cases upon suits of foreign investors against Ukraine and found no breaches of investment agreements on the part of the state. This was disclosed at the International Conference on Investment Agreements and Alternative Methods of Dispute Resolution between the State and Investor which is running in Kyiv.


  • 2008.05.30
    President says no to snap parliamentary elections in Ukraine
    There will be no early parliamentary elections in Ukraine, and no Kyiv mayor elections as well, President Viktor Yushchenko told a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council. "I would like to remind that the country will see no snap parliamentary elections, just to remind that we live not a surreal, but a practical, every day life. And we have to respond to the challenge of this every day life," Viktor Yushchenko stressed.


  • 2008.05.28
    President convinced of ruling coalition strenght
    Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is convinced that the ruling democratic coalition will not split, and called allegations by Internal Affairs Minister Yuriy Lutsenko as morbid. Yushchenko made a statement to this effect during a press conference in Winnipeg (Canada), where he is staying on a visit. The President emphasized that the coalition will not break up, and the hopes of those willing to avoid responsibility due to a coalition split are vain. "I will not do you this favor. People will account for what they undertook, including the internal affairs minister," Yushchenko emphasized.


  • 2008.05.26
    PRESIDENT VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO ARRIVES IN CANADA
    "Ukraine is praising the relations of special partnership established between our friendly countries," Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said in Canada. During a meeting with Governor General of Canada Michaelle Jean, he praised human and interstate relations between Canada and Ukraine, adding that the countries are united by common goals and values, particularly democracy, human rights and freedoms, and the supremacy of law.


  • 2008.05.23
    KYIV'S ENERGY SUMMIT TRIGGERS CREATION OF NEW EURO-ASIAN OIL TRANSPORT CORRIDOR
    The 3rd Energy Security Summit ended in Kyiv with signing of three significant documents. The summit participants, namely the presidents of Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Estonia signed a Kyiv Declaration on Principles of Global Energy Security; a Joint Declaration about Caspian-Black Sea-Baltic Energy Transit Space. Apart from this, the presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine signed a Joint Declaration on the Project of Euro-Asian Oil Transport Corridor. According to President Viktor Yushchenko, the Kyiv summit triggered a regional dialogue to create a single Caspian-Black Sea-Baltic Energy Transit Space, which is "a howling success".


  • 2008.05.22
    UKRAINIAN GAS TRANSPORT AND OIL TRANSPORT SYSTEMS ARE INTEGRAL PART OF EUROPEAN ENERGY POLICY - PRESIDENT VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
    Ukrainian gas transport and oil transport systems are an integral part of the European energy policy, President Viktor Yushchenko stated at the International Forum on energy safety held in Kyiv. Yushchenko noted that presently the matter concerns formation of a new culture of energy carriers' transit from the East to the West enabling to minimize threats of energy safety. According to him, Ukraine has been already initiating reconstruction of transit facilities available in Ukraine


  • 2008.05.19
    UKRAINE EXPECTS FURTHER DEEPENING COOPERATION WITH EBRD, SAYS PRESIDENT
    Ukraine expects further deepening partnership with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said during the opening of the first meeting of EBRD Board of Directors, the president's press service reported. The event was held for the second time in Kyiv. "Ukraine wants to become a territory of European investment and has the necessary potential for this. Long cooperation with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is clear evidence of this," the president said.


  • 2008.05.16
    UKRAINE BECOMES WTO MEMBER
    Ukraine has become a member state of the World Trade Organization. According to experts, the accumulated influence on the branches of national economy will have a positive character, the Economy Ministry reported. Upon Ukraine's accession to the WTO, the country has such privileges as receiving a regime of the greatest assistance in the trade area of all WTO member states, in other words, the simultaneous improvement of trade conditions with 151 countries covering 95% of the global trade.


  • 2008.05.15
    UKRAINE HAS DEMOCRATIC MECHANISMS TO SETTLE POLITICAL CRISES, PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO SAYS
    President Viktor Yushchenko, currently on a working visit to Great Britain, made a presentation at the Royal Institute of International Affairs .Chatham House. entitled .Ukraine's Progress following Orange Revolution.. According to the presidential official web-site, in his report the Head of State focused on the policy of Ukraine's European and Euro-Atlantic integration. He recalled that the Ukrainian side hopes to complete talks on the new enhanced agreement with the EU with fixing a principle of the political association and economic integration with the European Union.


  • 2008.05.13
    PRESIDENT URGES MAJORITY TO UNDERTAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR STABLE RADA WORK
    Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has called on the parliamentary majority to undertake responsibility for stable and constructive work of Verkhovna Rada, and immediately start consideration of the package of priority social bills. He made this call at a news briefing following his meeting with the Parliament Speaker and faction leaders, an UKRINFORM correspondent reported.


  • 07.05.2008
    PRESIDENT SURE UKRAINE TO ALLY ITSELF WITH NATO MAP IN DECEMBER
    President Viktor Yushchenko, currently on a visit to Lithuania, is sure that Ukraine will ally itself with the NATO Membership Action Plan in December 2008. President Yushchenko reasons his confidence by the fact that Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration meets both the country's national and common European interests. All the same, the Head of State thinks that Ukraine is to make a number of steps for the time remained. The matter concerns an active work of mass media, political circles, public initiatives for the Ukrainian citizens to formulate once again their views on the effective model of the national security policy and importance of Ukraine's NATO accession.


  • 07.05.2008
    PRESIDENT PARTICIPATES IN SPECIAL PROJECT BY UKRAINA TV CHANNEL
    Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has participated in a special project by Ukraina TV Channel dedicated to Victory Day entitled "The Great Patriotic War - Lessons for Ukraine," UKRINFORM reported, citing the presidential press service. The head of state expressed his view on retaining memories of the war, conducting historical researches that would tell the truth about events of those times and help refrain from ideological interpretations.


  • 06.05.2008
    YUSHCHENKO STRESSES CERTAIN STABILIZATION ON UKRAINIAN GAS MARKET
    The issue of the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline pumping crude in the reverse regime should be urgently resolved before the holding of an energy summit in Ukraine on May 22-23. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko announced this during a meeting with Naftogaz of Ukraine CEO Oleh Dubyna on Tuesday. He noted that there was certain stabilization on the country's gas market thanks to a government resolution on the Naftogaz of Ukraine's balanced and deficit free financial plan for 2008.


  • 28.04.2008
    UKRAINE PAYS OFF GAS DEBTS TO RUSSIA - YULIYA TYMOSHENKO
    Ukraine has paid off debts to Russia for the gas consumed, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko told the 3rd meeting of the Committee on Economic Cooperation of the Ukraine-Russia Interstate Commission Yushchenko-Putin. "Today we've sent the last payment obligation which fully cancels indebtedness for the gas consumed. And it is possible to say that Ukraine has paid off all debts," she stressed.


  • 27.04.2008
    PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO HANDS OVER EASTER FLAME TO CHURCH REPRESENTATIVES AND UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY IN ST SOFIA CATHEDRAL
    In the Sofia Kyivska National Reserve, President Viktor Yushchenko participated in a ceremony of handing over Easter Flame to representatives of Ukrainian churches and Ukrainian community, UKRINFORM correspondent reported. The Head of State was first to light one of 32 candles of the Holy Fire which was delivered from Jerusalem and addressed the ceremony participants. In his speech, President Yushchenko asked spiritual energy and happy fortune for entire Ukrainian nation.


  • 26.04.2008
    PRESIDENT LAYS FLOWERS TO MEMORIAL MOUND "TO THE HEROES OF CHORNOBYL"
    President Viktor Yushchenko took part in a commemoration prayer and laid flowers to the Memorable Mound "To the Heroes of Chornobyl". The vents took place in Kyiv on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of the Chornobyl accident occurred April 26, 1986, the presidential press-service reported.


  • 24.04.2008
    PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO MAKES GOVT RESPONSIBLE FOR CURRENT INFLATION
    President Viktor Yushchenko at a news conference in Kyiv made the Government and the National Bank leadership responsible for inflation in Ukraine. "A key responsibility lies with the Government and National Bank. I warned even in January, that the Finance Ministry, Economics Ministry and the National Bank stake their life on the price and money stability," the Head of State stressed. According to Viktor Yushchenko, quarter inflation at 9.7 percent has actually seized UAH 18 billion (USD 3.6 billion) from the Ukrainian citizens.


  • 22.04.2008
    UKRAINE, POLAND USE EVERY POSSIBLE EFFORT IN FIRST YEAR OF EURO-2012 PREPARATION - VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO
    President Viktor believes that Ukraine and Poland succeeded during the first year of preparation to Euro-2012, he told a meeting of the Coordination Council for Euro-2012 in Lviv (West Ukraine).The President said that a document base has been put in the joint project over the period, the two presidents signed the joint declaration to strengthen cooperation on preparation to Euro-2012 between Ukraine and Poland, Ukraine and Poland's governments signed the intergovernmental agreement of cooperation, the Ukrainian-Polish Committee on Preparation and Holding the Euro-2012 Finals was signed.


  • 21.04.2008
    PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO SUGGESTS ENHANCING SOCIAL DIALOGUE AMONG GOVERNMENT, EMPLOYERS AND TRADE UNIONS
    At today's meeting of the National Trilateral Social Economic Council, President Viktor Yushchenko expressed himself for enhancement of a social dialogue in the state. According to him, there is a need for effective cooperation between main social partners: the Government, employers trade unions and. "I'm sure it is easier to address urgent issues in the society that has such a dialogue," the Head of State said.


  • 17.04.2008
    COALITION WILL NOT BREAK UP, YUSHCHENKO BELIEVES
    Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko expressed the opinion at a press conference in Donetsk Thursday that the coalition of democratic forces would not break up. Nobody will leave the coalition, and no declarations can decide its destiny, he emphasized. At the same time, Yushchenko pointed out a number of conflicting points between the Cabinet of Ministers and the President. In the first place, this is election of Kyiv mayor in two runs. The head of state says it would be wrong to alter election system in one separate city. He views this idea as a kind of election technology having nothing in common with democratic process.


  • 15.04.2008
    PRESIDENT DEMANDS FROM HEADS OF LAW-ENFORCEMENT BODIES TO INTENSIFY FIGHTING CORRUPTION
    At today's meeting dedicated to fighting corruption President Viktor Yushchenko called creation of the new anti-corruption legislation, which in particular would recognize corruption as a penal act, as a primary task in this sphere. Viktor Yushchenko called on all participants in the meeting to support the law to the maximum, on the basis of which the National Investigation Bureau will be set up, a body authorized to carry out fight against corruption at high authority levels.


  • 04.04.2008
    PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO SURE UKRAINE TO JOIN MAP IN DECEMBER
    Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko expressed confidence at the Ukraine-NATO Commission meeting that Ukraine will join the NATO Membership Action Plan after North Atlantic Council Foreign Ministerial in December 2008. "Our meeting is running right after extremely important, historical for all European security decision. The North Atlantic Council has recently given an absolutely clear signal regarding further relations development between Ukraine and NATO," the President stressed.


  • 03.04.2008
    UKRAINE, GEORGIA WILL STAND NEW CHANCE TO JOIN NATO MEMBERSHIP ACTION PLAN IN DECEMBER
    Ukraine and Georgia lost their chance to join the NATO Membership Action Plan during the Bucharest summit, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said following the extraordinary meeting in Bucharest Thursday. At the same time, he said, agreement was reached that the two countries would make their weighty contribution to the current operations of the Alliance. According to Scheffer, the heads of states and governments ordered foreign ministers to study the progress Ukraine and Georgia made on their path to the Membership Action Plan, and pass a final decision on their applications during the meeting in December.


  • 01.04.2008
    US SUPPORTS UKRAINE'S JOINING NATO MAP - PRESIDENT YUSCHENKO
    President Viktor Yuschenko says that Ukraine has received support of the United States in its intentions to join the NATO Membership Action Plan. Yuschenko told this at the joint press conference with US President George Bush following their meeting in Kyiv.


  • 31.03.2008
    UKRAINE, US FULLY PREPARED FOR BUSH VISIT, CHALYI SAYS
    The Ukrainian and US parties are fully prepared for the March 31 - April 1 state visit of US President George Bush to Ukraine, Deputy Head of the President's Secretariat Oleksandr Chalyi told a news briefing. In his words, this visit is going to become a landmark event. "It is expected that the Unites States will render support to Ukraine on its plea for joining the NATO Membership Action Plan. Apart from this, Ukrainian - US relations will be taken to a much higher and qualitative level of cooperation," the deputy head of the secretariat said.


  • 28.03.2008
    PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO CONSIDERS 100 DAYS OF CABINET'S ACTIVITY AS BEGINNING OF ITS WORK
    At the same time he stressed that every Ukrainian citizen would like to see the Government in force more efficient. He noted that many hopes and tasks are put on Tymoshenko's Government, gas delivery settlement, overcoming corruption in particular etc.


  • 27.03.2008
    UKRAINE'S MAP ACCESSION POSES NO THREAT TO UKRAINE, OTHER COUNTRIES - PRESIDENT
    President Viktor Yushchenko stresses Ukraine has no intentions to deploy military basis in case of its joining NATO. This was disclosed by President Yushchenko in Kyiv at the All-Ukraine Intelligentsia Forum. "Someone disseminate a myth that there will be a NATO military base in Sevastopol. There will be no base. Read the Constitution, which clearly says that there will be no military bases of any country or bloc in Ukraine," the President emphasized.


  • 26.03.2008
    PRESIDENT READY TO ENHANCE LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT REFORM BY FINANCIAL REFORM
    Addressing a meeting of the National Council on Cooperation between State Authorities and Local Self-Government in Crimea, President Viktor Yushchenko expressed himself to change fundamentals of the budgetary policy of Ukraine, which, according to him, is needed to optimize the public funds management.


  • 24.03.2008
    PRESIDENT, PREMIER, SPEAKER DISCUSS VAT REFUND AND GOVERNMENT'S ACTIVITY IN PRIVATIZATION AREA
    During a traditional meeting with Verkhovna Rada Speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, President Viktor Yushchenko discussed with them issues on VAT refund from the budget, using of bank papers in payment of value-added tax during the goods imports, as well as Government's activity in the field of privatization.


  • 17.03.2008
    JANUARY-FEBRUARY INFLATION RATE DEMANDS NEW BUDGET 2008 FROM GOVERNMENT - PRESIDENT
    President Viktor Yushchenko believes the January-February inflation rate obliges the Government to form a new budget 2008, President Yushchenko told an interview with the National Channel One TV program "Point of View", UKRINFORM reports citing the presidential press-service. "Inflation is a factor we will always be facing. The scale of the inflation what is important here. Speaking about January-February rates, these rates oblige the Government to form a new budget 2008 and to protect groups of people which were affected by the inflation," the President stressed.


  • 15.03.2008
    PRESIDENT VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO CONGRATULATES UKRINFORM TEAM ON AGENCY'S 90TH ANNIVERSARY
    President Viktor Yushchenko congratulated a collective body of the National News Agency of Ukraine UKRINFORM on the occasion of the agency's 90th anniversary. The event falls on March 16. Viktor Yushchenko noted that he appreciates a rich history of the agency's team which absorbed achievements and experience of many generations of Ukraine's best journalists.


  • 14.03.2008
    UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ENLISTS POLISH SUPPORT ON UKRAINE'S ACCESSION TO NATO MAP
    President Viktor Yushchenko said following the Ukraine-Poland talks in Warsaw that Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic bid is not a matter of choice. "This is a matter of time, Viktor Yushchenko noted. Joining MAP is a qualitative task in the context of our integration into the Alliance". He noted an important role of Poland on the issue of Ukraine's joining NATO MAP which was proved by today's talks, where the theme was one of the main.


  • 13.03.2008
    VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO: POLITICAL ACCORD IN UKRAINE DEPENDS ON UNIFICATION AROUND NATIONAL PRIORITIES
    Inflation and the ways of curbing it, situation over organization of Verkhovna Rada's productive work, improvement of the Constitution, and Ukraine's course towards Euroatlantic integration - those were the key subjects of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's interview with UKRINFORM on the occasion of the news agency's 90th anniversary.


  • 12.03.2008
    PRESIDENT RECOMMENDS GOVERNMENT TO IMPLEMENT BUDGETARY PROGRAM STRICTLY AND RUN FINANCE PRAGMATICALLY
    In his exclusive interview for UKRINFORM, President Viktor Yushchenko spoke about the most topical issues for Ukraine, both in the foreign and home policy where the main challenge now is sharp inflation development. Analyzing antirecession measures proposed by Yulia Tymoshenko's Government, President Yushchenko stressed that in 2008 Ukraine had quite difficult inflation situation. The rise in prices for foodstuffs in January totaled 4.4 percent, while there were some 8.3 percent over the two month. "To my mind, this is the most severe inflation process Ukraine has been facing nowadays, especially in the product component of retail prices," he noted saying the inflation monetary factor is minimal.


  • 11.03.2008
    UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT WILL BUILD HARMONIOUS RELATIONS BOTH WITH EU AND RUSSIA, PRIME MINISTER SAYS
    The question whom Ukraine is going to integrate with - Russia or the European Union - is inopportune, as Ukraine is a big and powerful state that may build harmonious relations both with its neighbor countries and the EU, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko says. She announced this in Brussels Monday, UKRINFORM correspondents reported. Asked about a certain confrontation between Ukraine's integration with the EU and a strengthening of relations with the Russian Federation, she noted that in 2004, when the democratic team came to power in Ukraine, a real European integration started. Eurointegration is supported by the majority of political forces and population in Ukraine. Tymoshenko expressed confidence that Ukraine would obtain full-fledged membership in the EU


  • 06.03.2008
    GAS SITUATION IN UKRAINE UNDER GOVT'S CONTROL - TYMOSHENKO
    The government is in control of the situation on the natural gas market of Ukraine and ensuring the energy security of the country, according to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's letter to President Viktor Yushchenko, which was published on the government's website.


  • 06.03.2008
    NAFTOGAZ, GAZPROM REACH AGREEMENT ON CRISIS SETTLEMENT
    Following telephone talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine, Russia's Gazprom natural gas monopoly president Aleksey Miller and national joint stock company Naftogaz of Ukraine board chairman Oleh Dubyna reached agreement on settlement of the crisis situation in bilateral gas relations. Gas supply issues will be regulated, and talks on other questions of cooperation in gas industry will continue, reads a joint statement of Gazprom and Naftogaz of Ukraine.


  • 05.03.2008
    PRESIDENT URGES PREMIER TO RESUME TALKS WITH GAZPROM
    President Viktor Yuschenko demands that gas talks with Russia be continued immediately. This follows from his letter to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, which has been posted on the official website of the President.


  • 04.03.2008
    PRESIDENT MAY BEGIN CONSULTATIONS ON VR'S DISSOLUTION - BOHATYRIOVA
    President Viktor Yushchenko may begin consultations with political forces as regards the possibility of the parliament's dissolution unless it resumes work in the nearest few days, according to the statement signed by Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rayisa Bohatyriova. Ms. Bohatyriova reminded that the head of state has already expressed concern about the parliament's inefficiency and its inability to find a way out of the current crisis.


  • 03.03.2008
    GAZPROM REDUCES GAS SUPPLIES TO UKRAINE
    Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has informed the affiliate company of Naftogaz of Ukraine, Ukrtransgaz, about reducing gas supplies to Ukraine by 30 million cu. m. per day, Naftogaz press service reported. The relevant telegram from Gazprom arrived at 9.34 a.m. Kyiv time. Naftogaz assured that the move will not affect Ukrainian consumers. Gazrom earlier stated it will cut gas supplies to Ukraine by 25 percent as of 9 a.m. March 3 unless Ukraine's debt is settled. On February 29 Gazprom's official representative Sergei Kupriyanov said that Ukraine has not fully settled the debt for the gas supplied in 2007.


  • 28.02.2008
    RADA WILL START PRODUCTIVE WORK SOON, PRESIDENT ASSURES
    The work of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine will be unblocked in the nearest future, President Viktor Yushchenko told the Europe - Ukraine international forum in Kyiv Thursday. "We are convinced that Ukraine will have a working parliament one of these days, and the far-fetched circumstances under which the upper part of the confrontation was formed, will become a thing of the past," the head of state noted, expressing confidence that the parliament will return to productive work.