Charitable musical concerts to be held in Lviv

News / 31 August 2006 | 15:37

A musical concert with the framework of the international project “Six Cities – Six Voices” will be held on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Lviv’s foundation. The project has been launched under the aegis of the Freiburg Community of City Partnerships Assistance, Cabinet’s press office reported.

The event will involve participation of popular European stars, including Louise Ginnini(Italy), Blanca Ester Moreno (Spain), Enrico Paro (Italy), Clement Morgentaler (Germany) and Nataliya Datsko (Ukraine).

The project aims at development and strengthening contacts between Freiburg, Germany and Lviv.

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First Ladies of Ukraine and Germany to visit Odesa

News / 31 August 2006 | 15:12

On September 1 First Ladies Kateryna Yushchenko of Ukraine and Eva Luise Koehler of Germany are supposed to meet in Odesa.

The German First Lady will make her trip to Odesa with the framework of the UNICEF’s campaign Let’s Unite For Children’s Sake! which Frau Koehler patronizes. Mrs Yushchenko will accompany Eva Luise Koehler as Ukraine’s First Lady and Chairperson of the Ukraina 3000 Fund.

Kateryna Yushchenko and Eva Luise Koehler will visit the Odesa Regional HIV/AIDS Center’s juvenile division and the Homeward Road charitable fund’s children’s centre.

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Europe hopes for invariability of Ukraine’s course

News / 31 August 2006 | 14:37

Prime Minister of Poland Yaroslav Kaczynski and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union Javier Solana discussed issues concerning cooperation between united Europe and Ukraine.

According to Polish news agency, Kaczynski paid his first visit to Brussels during which the high officals agreed that Poland’s and Europe’s prior task is aspiration for Ukraine to keep its pro-European course.

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Our Ukraine to consider joining the parliamentary coalition

News / 31 August 2006 | 13:48

Tomorrow, September 1, the Our Ukraine bloc will hold a political council to consider joining the parliamentary coalition, as OU member Volodymyr Stretovich told journalists.

Speaking about Christian democratic union he heads and which forms a part of the OU bloc, Stretovich underlined that for ideological reasons his party would not join the coalition, which includes Communist party of Ukraine.

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Ukraine’s vice PM departed for Azerbaijan

News / 31 August 2006 | 13:04

Delegation of Ukraine’s cabinet of Ministers at the head of vice Prime Minister Andriy kluyev has departed for Azerbaijan with a two-day visit to hold intergovernmental negotiations.

The agenda of the visit includes a session of Ukrainian- Azerbaijani intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation.

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Azarov prepares industrialization of Ukraine

News / 31 August 2006 | 12:07

“Following the order of Prime Minister of Ukraine, working groups are developing content blocks of the Government Activity Program for the next 5 years and the program of the social-economic development for 2007,” first vice Prime Minister Mykola Azarov declared on the Cabinet’s meeting.

“This 5-year program practically defines new industrialization of our country. Previous century’s potential has been exhausted. It has to be replaced by modern technologies and we are determining trajectory of economics growth acceleration for the decades to come. Our guiding line is GDP doubling, new technological quality,” the vice minister noted, Cabinet’s press office reported.

“Consequently, we start to realize our country’s modernization project which is included in the coalition agreement of deputies’ fractions, in our pre-election programs,” Mykola Azarov emphasized. “Reformation is never an easy process,” he said.

“But I believe that we will manage this task and our independence, the15th anniversary of which we have celebrated lately, will take second wind as a result of deep economical and social transformation, indicated in the Government Activity Program,” the first vice Prime Minister assured.

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Ukraine does not recognize Transdniestrian referendum as legal

News / 31 August 2006 | 11:50

Ukraine excludes sending of its observers to the referendum on status of unrecognized Transdniestrian Moldovan republic, press office of Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry reported.

Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine, special representative of Ukraine on Transdniester regulation affairs Andriy Veselovsky declares that Ukraine, as Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe with the European Union, does not recognize results of the referendum as legal.

“Ukraine’s position concerning Transdniester remains immutable. We stand for peaceful regulation of the conflict preserving sovereignty and territorial integrity of Moldova, observance of customs regime in force, securing of rights and freedoms of citizens,” Veselovsky stated.

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-          international recognition of Transdniester with its further joining Russia;

-          rejection of independence of Transdniester and its joining Moldova.

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What laws will be adopted on the second VR session?

News / 31 August 2006 | 11:22

The second session of the Verkhovna Rada will be devoted to consideration of constitutional reform and budget. According to Verkhovna Rada chairman Oleksand Moroz, the list of deputies’ offers numbers about two hundred items.

At the same time, the list of issues for consideration will become known for sure only after a conciliatory council of heads of the parliamentary factions, which is to take place on September 4. Meanwhile, deputies are not unanimous as for the statutes for adoption.

According to chairman of legal policy committee Evhen Kushnaryov (Party of Regions), “the main question for consideration is the second stage of the constitutional reform, renewal of regional self-government, development of local governing.”

“The most urgent issue is budget,” MP Serhiy Matvienkov (SPU) considers, “The new government promised stabilization and reduction of taxes.” According to him, the parliament must adopt laws, which will stimulate development and implantation of energy saving technologies, as well as regulate work of antimonopoly legislation.

Chairman of the committee on human rights Leonid Grach (Communist party) considers that first of all the parliament must adopt the bill draft of Petro Symonenko “On foreign policy of the state,” which provides for rejection of accession into NATO.

According to deputy chairman of the committee on the fuel and energy complex Mikhailo Volunets (BYuT), the VR should approve draft laws, which will not allow increasing of gas and electric power prices for population.

Chairman of the committee on freedom of speech and information Andriy Shevchenko (BYuT) considers that priorities of his committee are ungovernmentalisation of the press and public broadcasting.

According to deputy chairman of the committee on building and housing and communal services Volodymyr Polyachenko (Our Ukraine), his committee has offered changes to Land Code, which concern land allotment for building.

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Ukraine’s cabinet drafted state budget for 2007

News / 31 August 2006 | 10:53

The Cabinet of Ministers has drafted the state budget for 2007 on the basis of a projected 6.5% GDP growth rate and a projected 7.5% inflation rate, First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Mykola Azarov told journalists after a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.

According to him, state budget revenues are projected to increase by 15% while the hryvnia’s exchange rate to the dollar is projected at 5.1 hryvnia per dollar.

Azarov said that the proportion of the GDP that would be “distributed through the budget” would make 29.9%.

According to him, the novelty in the draft state budget for 2007 is that revenues from privatization of state assets will be spent on concrete investment projects and not “eaten up.”

Moreover, Azarov said that the draft state budget for 2007 would also provide for a deficit equal to 2.6% of GDP and that this deficit would be covered through borrowings on the domestic and foreign markets.

According to him, the government expects the revenue target of the draft state budget to be exceeded.

He told journalists that the consolidated budget was projected at 170 billion hryvnia (US$ 34 billion) and the “general fund” of the state budget at 110 billion hryvnia (US$ 22 billion).

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Ukraine’s and Korea’s Prosecutors General agreed upon cooperation between their agencies

News / 31 August 2006 | 10:15

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko met with a delegation of the Korean Supreme Public Prosecutors’ Office, led by Prosecutor General Choung Sang-Myoung, Cabinet’s press office reproted.

Medvedko briefed the guests about functions, organization of the work of the Ukrainian General Office of Public Prosecutor. The Korean delegation Head showed his interest in activities of the Ukrainian Prosecutor Academy and proposed to develop cooperation between the two Prosecutor General Offices in professional exchange and personnel training.

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