BRUSSELS, March 15 - NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Saturday that Georgia and Ukraine's membership aspirations still remain in the balance less than three weeks before the alliance's summit, AFP reported.

KIEV, March 16 ??“ A major Ukrainian grain trader failed to make timely payment on 50 million hryvnias corporate bonds in what is increasingly likely to become the country??™s first corporate debt default, a newswire reported.

KIEV, March 16 - UkrGazVydobuvannya, Ukraine??™s largest natural gas producer, launched in operation a power co-generation unit at its oil and gas refinery Shebelinka GPP, the company said in a statement Thursday.

KIEV, March 16 ??“ Parliament on Wednesday ratified a $20 million credit agreement between Ukraine and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the implementation of energy saving projects.

KIEV, March 15 ??“ Russian Technologies, a venture investment fund, a member of the Moscow-based Alfa Group, and Intel Capital, a branch of U.S. Intel for strategic investments, will lend Ukrainian High Technology Ltd. $7.5 million for launching WiMAX-based wireless data transmission networks.

KIEV, March 15 ??“ A deal granting Ukraine a ¥19 billion from Japan??™s International Development Bank for reconstruction of Kiev??™s Boryspil airport will be officially signed by the bank and the Cabinet of Ministers later this month.

KIEV, March 15 ??“ TNK-BP, Russia??™s third largest oil company that owns the second biggest oil refinery in Ukraine, heavily criticized a suggested draft law that seeks to lift duties and taxes on imports of diesel fuel.

KIEV, March 16 ??“ AutoVAZ (Togliatti), the leading Russian automobile producer, is ready to quickly double the import of spare parts from Ukraine from the current $100 million a year provided the procedure for trading and money settlements between companies of two countries is simplified and intermediaries are eliminated, company President Vladimir Kadannikov said.

KYIV, Feb 14 - Energy Minister Herman Haluschenko is concerned that the Bulgarian parliament has registered a resolution on the cancellation of the permit to sell two reactor vessels for power units No. 3 and No. 4 of Khmelnytsky NPP to Ukraine, the term of which expires on March 11.

KYIV, Feb 14 – Ukraine has received offers from many companies, including large companies from neighboring countries, to participate in financing the completion of power units No. 3.4 at the Khmelnytsky NPP in exchange for a share in the project.