In August, the official unemployment rate fell by 0.1 percentage point to 2.1%.
The State Statistics Committee announced this.
According to data of the State Statistics Committee, a total of 0.596 million unemployed people were registered with the State Employment Service as of September 1, 2007.
A total of 0.632 million unemployed people were registered with the State Employment Service as of August 1.
The highest unemployment rate was registered in Rivne region (4.0%), while the lowest unemployment rate was registered in Kyiv (0.3%) as of September 1.
According to data of the State Statistics Committee, in August the state allocated UAH 149.6 million toward provision of unemployment benefits.
A total of 508,600 unemployed people received this money. The average size of benefit per one person totaled UAH 294.12.
The State Statistics Committee announced that there were 218,100 vacancies in Ukraine, as of September 1.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, in July, the official unemployment rate fell by 0.1 percentage point to 2.2%.
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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