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  • 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.