KIEV, July 4 – Lawmakers have proposed to prolong the reduction in excise duty on petrol of EUR 50 per ton and on diesel fuel by EUR 20-30 per ton until December 31, 2011.

KIEV, July 4 – Cyprian President Demetris Christofias says that his country is ready to sign a new double taxation prevention agreement with Ukraine.

KIEV, July 5 – CIS states should give up playing a role of a raw materials-producing appendage and cheap workforce source for the international economy in the future, First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev said at an investment conference in Yalta.

KIEV, July 5 – Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko asked the International Monetary Fund on Monday to postpone a $14.9 billion loan to Ukraine until the government appeals a court ruling ordering return of a massive amount of gas to RosUkrEnergo.

KIEV, July 2 – Ukraine expects a response from its partners in Europe and Russia to its proposal to create a joint venture on the construction of a new gas pipeline across its territory, President Viktor Yanukovych said.

KIEV, July 2 – Ukraine and the United States are considering the possibility of optimizing the efforts of the two countries on their cooperation in the energy sector, particularly in nuclear energy and the extraction of energy resources.

KIEV, July 3 - Ukraine gained about $800 million in arms trade in 2008, UkrSpetsExport Director General Serhiy Bondarchuk said in an interview posted by the Thursday issue of the Segodnya newspaper.

"Arms exports were worth of $700 million in 2007 and about $800 million in 2008, as compared to $400 million in 2004," he said.

KIEV, July 4 – Ukraine’s SBU security service launched a nationwide manhunt on Friday, seeking to capture Viktor Lozynskiy, a lawmaker, accused of involvement in a recent murder in Kirovohrad region.

KIEV, July 3 - President Viktor Yushchenko has announced that a joint meeting of the organization committees of Ukraine and Poland on holding the finals of the Euro-2012 European Football Championship will take place in Huta (Ivano-Frankivsk region) on July 9.

KIEV, July 4 - The council of the National Bank of Ukraine does not support an increase in state foreign borrowing this year and proposes to increase work on the registration of government's debt to the NBU in securities, according to Petro Poroshenko, the head of the NBU council.