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07.05.2008
The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine delivered a note of protest to the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation concerning the activities of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which tested new missiles at the territory of Ukraine without informing the Ukrainian side about that.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Vassyl Kyrylych disclosed this to UNIAN.
The note was given to minister-counsellor of the Russian Embassy to Ukraine Vsevolod Loskutov.
According to V.Kyrylych, RF Black Sea Fleet representatives provided documents, confirming that the missile is a property of a RF Black Sea Fleet unit. The missile testing at the Ukrainian territory was not agreed with Ukraine, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman stressed. Therefore, the agreement on stationing the Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine had been violated, the diplomat specified.
 06.05.2008
Ukraine favors participation of companies of the Untied Arab Emirates in projects with the preparations for the Euro 2012 European football championship finals.
Ukrainian News learned this from the Ukrainian presidential press service.
On April 30, Oksana Sliusarenko, a deputy head of the Secretariat of President Viktor Yuschenko, met in Abu Dhabi with UAE Minister of Foreign Trade Lubna al-Qasimi, who is a co-chairman of the Ukraine-UAE intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation.
The meeting addressed the topic of Ukraine's investment opportunities and the prospects for the participation of companies of the UAE in projects related to the preparations for the Euro 2012 European football championship finals.
Sliusarenko gave the minister Ukraine's national program of preparations for the football championship and outlined main infrastructure projects.
06.05.2008
Economic Court of Odesa region has suspended privatization of the Odesa portside factory, Odesa region, until ecological audit is performed.
Reporters learned this on May 5 from Odesa municipal council deputy Oleksandr Honcharenko, who heads the public organization Zelionka (Brilliant Green) and who filed a corresponding claim to the court.
Honcharenko specified, the court ruled to stop any actions of privatizing the factory until holding mandatory ecological audit.
"I filed a claim against the Odesa portside factory in order to oblige the plant and the State Property Fund of Ukraine to perform mandatory ecological audit of the OJSC Odesa Portside Factory before it privatized, as demands the Ukrainian Law On Ecological Audit and the Ukrainian Law On Privatization Of State Property," said Honcharenko.
In his words, the first hearing in the case was held on May 5, the defendant's representative did not attend it, so the court decided to hold the next sitting on May 16.
25.04.2008
President Viktor Yuschenko has called on businesses to invest in the Ukrainian agricultural industry.
The presidential press service announced this in a statement.
"The terms and peculiarities of the market have created such a circumstance in which the production sector is super-interesting," Yuschenko said at the opening of the fourth annual international conference entitled "Against the Trend."
Yuschenko noted the huge potential of Ukraine as a producer of agricultural goods and said that the trends on the world agricultural market largely facilitated development of the Ukrainian agricultural sector.
"It is a huge renaissance for Ukrainian agriculture. It only remains to bring the correct rules of the game," Yuschenko said.
He described the reduction of the government's participation on the agricultural market as a positive trend.
At the same time, he criticized the Cabinet of Ministers' restrictions on export of agricultural crops.
"Attempts to manage domestic prices through closure of the external market is an erroneous policy," he said.
In general, Yuschenko described the Ukrainian economy as attractive to investors.
24.04.2008
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko and Bulgaria's Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev have discussed the trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian cooperation between their two respective countries.
Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the press service of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Ohryzko and Stanishev met on Tuesday as part of the Ukrainian foreign minister's official visit to Bulgaria.
Ohryzko said Ukraine wanted to further step up the political dialogue with Bulgaria and voiced a hope there would be mutual visits at the top level in 2008.
Foreign Minister Ohryzko said the potential of the relations between Ukraine and Bulgaria was great in the transport sector, in the energy sector and investment. He said it was necessary to prepare a meeting of the bilateral commission for trade and economic cooperation.
24.04.2008
The National Bank has decided to conduct a three-month experiment and accept shares of the owners who have significant participation in statutory capitals of banks as security during refinancing of financial institutions.
This is stated in NBU resolution No.105 of April 18.
By this resolution, the NBU has amended its resolution No.434 of November 14, 2006 "On the Terms and Possible Volumes of Particular Operations to Be Conducted by the NBU with the Banks."
According to the changes, during three months the NBU will be accepting shares of the bank owners in the amount of 90% of their book-sheet value as of the recent reporting date as security during bank refinancing.
21.04.2008
The Cabinet of Ministers allocated UAH 96,394,547 to the state-owned Savings Bank (Oschadbank) on April 17 for compensating Ukrainian citizens for the deposits they held in the former Soviet Union's Savings Bank before 1992, which depreciated as a result of hyperinflation.
The bank announced this in a statement.
The money is intended for transfer into depositors' accounts within the scope of the amount that has been indexed (a maximum of UAH 1,000 per depositor).
The payments to the depositors will be made in accordance with the Cabinet of Ministers resolution No. 1 of January 9, 2008.
The Cabinet of Ministers has allocated 20 tranches of money to Oschadbank in 2007 for compensating citizens for their depreciated deposits since the start of 2008.
18.04.2008
President Viktor Yuschenko is sure that world demand for solutions of Ukrainian scientists will grow.
Ukrainian News learned this from the presidential press service.
The President made this statement at a general meeting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv.
He said that solutions and projects of Ukrainian scientists in the fuel and energy and space industries are vital and in high demand.
"I am deeply convinced that now it is time when Ukrainian science, which has traditionally had a high level of development, Ukrainian technologies are becoming popular. We have reasons to be proud of Ukrainian science and education. This is a great school," the press service quoted the President as saying.
16.04.2008
The Presidential Secretariat's head Viktor Baloha has called on the government ministers responsible for the national economy to resign because of their low professional qualification.
The presidential press service announced this in a statement.
"The ministers that have failed to cope with the negative trends, failed to propose quick, market instruments for responding should leave their posts," the press service quoted Baloha as saying.
Baloha believes that Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's Cabinet of Ministers bears political responsibility for the economic problems that the country encountered in the first quarter of 2008.
14.04.2008
The State Tax Administration of Ukraine is calling on the major trade networks to abide by their early April agreement with the Cabinet of Ministers on stabilization of food prices.
Ukrainian News learned this from the tax administration press service, which quoted administration head Serhii Buriak as saying during a meeting with representatives of the major trade nets.
"The outcome of pricing policy monitoring in almost all regions of Ukraine uncovered the facts of excess of the agreed 10-percent markup on major foodstuffs. Buriak called on the audience for a joint effort to guarantee proper level of cooperation so that the memorandum would not be formal," the press release says.
Taking part in the meeting, beside the tax administration head, were also his first deputy Vadym Kaizerman, his deputy Natalia Ruban, head of the State Price Control Inspectorate Natalia Nemodruk, as well as representatives of retail trade networks (Fozzy Group, Furshet, Velyka Kyshenia, Metro Cash&Carry-Ukraine, EKO-Market, Okay, Billa).
Trade net representatives proposed drawing local trade networks and producers to participation in the memo.
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