KIEV, April 3 – Ukraine will only benefit from the World Trade Organization if Russia and other member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States are also allowed to join, Parliamentary Speaker Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, April 6 - Ukraine will shortly ban imports of meat and dairy products from Russia in a move that will further escalate tensions between the two countries that have been already seriously strained.

KIEV, April 6 - Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz Thursday jointly stepped up pressure on President Viktor Yushchenko seeking his acceptance of Tymoshenko as the next head of the government.

WASHINGTON, April 5 ??“ Ukraine will seek to streamline and to lower a payroll tax that would allow many businesses to legally boost official wages and reduce an overall tax burden, President Viktor Yushchenko said.

WASHINGTON, April 5 ??“ Ukraine is ready to assume the role of a regional superpower promoting democracy in neighboring countries, a newspaper cited President Viktor Yushchenko as saying Tuesday during his on-going trip to the U.S.

KIEV, April 5 ??“ Lakshmi Mittal, the owner of the world??™s largest steel empire and the third richest man on the planet, met Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko Tuesday amid signs of a government struggle to reverse the controversial privatization of a major steelmaker last year.

KIEV, April 5 ??“ In January-March 2005 the growth rate of Ukraine's industrial production will slow to 7% against 18.8% in Q1 2004, the Economy Ministry predicted, according to a ministry report carried by Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, 6 March – Poland is starting the delivery of the 46th aid package to Ukraine worth over EUR 200 million, Polish Minister of National Defense Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said.

BRUSSELS, March 6 – European Union leaders on Thursday committed to working together to bolster the continent’s defenses and to free up hundreds of billions of euros for security after U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated warnings that he would cut them adrift to face the threat of Russia alone.

BRUSSELS, March 5 – The European Commission proposes to hold a Defence Industry Forum with Ukraine in 2024.

A corresponding proposal is spelled out in the European Defence Industrial Strategy, which, together with another document, the European Defence Investment Programme, was approved at a meeting of the Board of the European Commission on Tuesday in Brussels, a senior European official told reporters.