The Defense Ministry is planning to equip the Ukrainian army with a Ukrainian-made missile system by the year 2013. The press service of the Defense Ministry announced this to Ukrainian News. “I cannot say the number of systems that will be added to the arsenal and how much they will cost. That is classified information. However, I can state the approximate date they will be added: approximately by the end of 2012 if everything goes to plan,” the press service quoted Defense Minister Anatolii Hrytsenko as saying. The tactical range of the missiles will not exceed the range stipulated under Ukraine’s international obligations. According to Hrytsenko, the accuracy of the missiles will be measured in millimeters, …
The Kyiv municipal administration is seeking to build a monument to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko and send it to Rome (Italy). The press service of the Kyiv municipal administration announced this to Ukrainian News, citing the outcome of a meeting between Kyiv’s Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi, and Italy’s Ambassador to Ukraine Fabio Fabbri on Thursday, September 6. The two sides have preliminarily agreed that the mayor of Rome will allocate a land plot for erection and that the Kyiv municipal administration will facilitate preparation and transportation of the monument. In return, the Kyiv municipal administration has agreed to allocate a land plot for erection of a monument to Italian poet Dante Alighieri. As …
Minister of Extraordinary Situations Nestor Shufrych has ordered to set up a camp near the Ministry of Extraordinary situations in order to provide picketers with normal conditions, press service of the Ministry of Extraordinary situations informs. Besides, a film about work of the Ministry during the year 2007 will be demonstrated to the picketers. At the same time Shufrych complained that in spite he is officially on vacation, he has spent all this day at his working place in order nobody has doubts concerning the Minister. As earlier reported, representatives of “Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense” bloc gathered near the central entrance of the Emergency Ministry and Ministry of Transport yesterday. They demand the …
The European Commission for Foreign Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, asked Ukraine to give up visa requirements for Romanians and Bulgarians, in order to help the adoption of the special visa regime between the European Union and Kiev, according to Mediafax, quoting the Ukrainian News Agency online.
The commissioner added however that the EU is not conditioning Ukraine’s accession to the World Trade Organisation on the elimination of visa …
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News on terrorist act in Beirut on 19 of September of 2007, which caused victims among civil population, in particularly member of Lebanese parliament Antoine Ghanem, was received in Ukraine with deep concern, according to the MFA press-service.
Ukraine is strongly condemning a practice of political killings and terrorist attacks in Lebanon and hopes that Lebanese people will not be provoked and will not allow deepening of internal political …
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A Ukrainian citizen was killed in an automobile accident on the Antalia-Belek road in Turkey in September 7.
The press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry announced this in a statement, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.
According to the statement, the Ukrainian citizen worked as a guide for a tourist agency.
His body is scheduled to be sent to Ukraine in a coffin on September 10.
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