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06.10.2008
Verkhovna Rada Chairman Arsenii Yatseniuk considers that prolongation of the Ukrainian-Russian agreement on friendship and co-operation is an epoch event.
He said this at the meeting entitled "Diplomatic Club" organized by his Open Ukraine fund.
At the same time, Yatseniuk said that many provisions of the agreement are declarative and have no mechanisms of implementation.
He said that Ukraine and Russia should develop bilateral dialog over creation of relevant mechanisms.
"We have to add the Bid agreement. We should elaborate additional agreements for each item of this Agreement to envisage mechanism of implementation of the declared provisions," he said.
 24.09.2008
Poland supposes that the local border traffic accord with Ukraine may be put into effect before the European Union extends its border norm at Poland's initiative.
A spokesman of the Polish Foreign Ministry's Department of Consular and Polonia Affairs has told this Ukrainian News.
"There's such a chance. A political decision may be passed," the source said when asked if the accord with Ukraine can be put into effect before the EU border norm changed.
But the Polish Foreign Ministry's spokesman stressed that the European Commission's position is to be taken into account when making such a decision, and it demands to reduce the border zone foreseen by the Ukrainian-Polish accord to 30 from 50 kilometers.
The source announced the Euro-commission's protest to the valid Ukraine-Hungary border traffic accord on the 50-kilometer zone.
"They [Hungary] face the European Court," he said.
22.09.2008
The Industrial Policy Ministry is forecasting a shortage of about 10 million tons of coking coal in 2009.
Industrial Policy Minister Volodymyr Novytskyi announced this to journalists.
«Shortage of coking coal is a serious problem that cannot be solved quickly,» Novytskyi said.
According to Novytskyi, the shortage will be the result of importation of small quantities of coking coal, the absence of a deep-water port, and insufficient volumes of mining by Ukrainian enterprises.
22.09.2008
The Cabinet of Ministers suggests the Verkhovna Rada should allocate UAH 200 million for purchasing An-148 planes in 2009.
This is stated in a draft bill on state budget of Ukraine for 2009 registered at the Verkhovna Rada September 15 with No 3000.
The aircraft will be purchased within the framework of the budget program for acquiring An-148 planes through a state-run leasing enterprise. Under the bill, the planes will be purchased to support a domestic manufacturer of advanced technology products, make up airlines' fleet and improve safety of air transportation.
As Ukrainian News reported, the Ministry of Industrial Policy instructed Kyiv-based Aviant state-run aviation plant to launch serial production of An-148 planes by late 2008.
05.08.2008
Transport and Communications Minister Yosyp Vinskyi has estimated damage to roads from floods at UAH 1.5 billion and to railway at UAH 0.5 billion.
He announced this at a press briefing in Ivano-Frankivsk region.
He said maximum efforts are needed for prompt restoration of roads because they are important for the economy.
"Today the key task is to move roads from river beds as far as we can," Vinskyi said.
The minister added that traffic on 34 bridges was resumed as of August 4, including 20 bridges in Ivano-Frankivsk, six in Chernivtsi region, seven in Zakarpattia region, and one in Lviv region.
04.08.2008
Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko is convinced that payment of money compensations to the residents of six regions, who suffered from floods, will not cause inflation upturn, the presidential press service reported.
Yuschenko made a statement to this effect while staying in Ivano-Frankivsk region on August 3.
"We should not be afraid of that. This is real, just money due to come to people," the press service quoted the President as saying.
Yuschenko emphasized once again that the budget policy miscounts made by the Cabinet of Ministers in January - June caused a serious inflation raise.
"The government that will learn not to boost inflation would be the one to bring development to this country," the President said.
In Yuschenko's opinion, foe No. 1 of any authority is inflation.
29.07.2008
President Viktor Yuschenko has denied reports of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who said that launch of Odesa-Brody oil pipeline towards Brody bears corruptive pattern.
He disclosed this at a press conference.
"What is corruptive about this, when 100-percent state monopoly will provide oil transit," he said.
According to the president, this issue is more political than economic.
"I suppose this is about political priorities, which are out of the economic interests," he said.
Yuschenko considers that talks on inexpediency of use of the oil pipeline in forward mode are unacceptable.
28.07.2008
The Ukrainian Independent TV Corporation (Inter TV channel) blames the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTCU) for disruption of signing of a contract on broadcasting 2008 Olympics.
Ukrainian News learned this from the press service of Inter.
The talks on acquisition by Inter of a sublicense for broadcasting the Olympics started late in April and the signing of the contract was scheduled for July 3.
However, the contract was not signed, as the NTCU was changing the terms and breaking dates.
In particular, two weeks ahead of the date for the signing of the contract, the NTCU refused to provide the Inter group with access codes to a satellite signal from Beijing and the sublicensee had to purchase additional technical equipment to receive the Olympic signal worth UAH 275,000 as a result.
On July 3, the NTCU moved forward another demand on sublicensing: one-hour delay in the broadcast of the closure of the Olympics on Inter instead of a 15-minute delay, according to previous agreements.
24.07.2008
Labor Ministry and Pension Fund Opens Hot Lines For Getting Additional Payments To Pensions For July
The Ministry Of Labor And Social Policy and Pension Fund has opened Hot Lines in order to help retiree to get additional payments to pensions for July.
This reads the statement of the Labor Ministry, text of which Ukrainian News has obtained.
The statements reports that citizens, whose converting of pension was made untimely or who does not receive extra charge, in accordance with the converting of pensions, will have a possibility to get additional consultations via Hot Lines.
The Labor Ministry hot line number is 8-800-500-39-20 and Pension Fund hotline number is 284-63-74.
Moreover, Hot Lines function in the Pension Fund Kyiv district departments.
23.07.2008
Ukraine intends to increase electricity export to Moldova and East European countries by 5.9% or 445.47 million kilowatt-hours to 7995.73 million kilowatt-hours in 2008.
This is stated in operational analytical information from the Fuel and Energy Ministry about electricity export to Moldova and East European countries.
Under the document electricity export to Moldova will increase by 0.01% to 2.932 billion kilowatt-hours, to Poland by 33% to 0.855 billion kilowatt-hours, to Hungary by 0.38% to 3.184 billion kilowatt-hours, to Slovakia by 103% to 0.703 billion kilowatt-hours, and to Romania will reduce by 30% to 0.321 billion kilowatt-hours.
According to the forecasts for 2009, electricity export to the above-mentioned countries will increase by 10% to 8,328.175 million kilowatt-hours compared to 2007.
Average export price will be USD 61.75 per kilowatt-hour in 2008, USD 90.64 in 2009.
In January-May, export prices under the agreements with Korlea Invest company (Slovakia) made up USD 0.062 per kilowatt-hour, with Energy Capital company (Hungary) – USD 0.068 per kilowatt-hour, System Consulting (Hungary) – USD 0.066 per kilowatt-hour, Zomar S.A. (Poland) – USD 0.05 per kilowatt-hour, and Energocom (Moldova) – USD 0.038 per kilowatt-hour.
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