LE BOURGET, June 21 – Antonov state-run enterprise is working on the certification of the An-148/158/168 new generation passenger regional jets in the European Union.

KIEV, June 21 – The BYT-Batkivschyna faction is demanding that President Viktor Yanukovych veto a law permitting exports of Ukrainian gas passed by Parliament on June 17.

KIEV, June 21 – The International Monetary Fund will probably send a team to Ukraine in September to see whether the country can qualify for the next installment within a $15 billion loan program, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Monday.

KIEV, June 18 – Ukraine will contribute to strengthening the European Union and without it "the grand European project" won't be complete, Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryschenko said at a meeting with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius on Friday.

KIEV, June 21 – Experts from a mission of the International Monetary Fund arrived in Kiev on Monday, the IMF Resident Representative Office in Ukraine has told Interfax-Ukraine.

Deputy Director of the IMF's European Department Poul Thomsen and IMF Mission Chief for Ukraine Thanos Arvanitis agreed during their recent visit to Kiev that the IMF mission would start working in Ukraine on June 21 to work out the draft of the new program of cooperation between Ukraine and the IMF.

KIEV, June 21 – Parliament has given first-reading support to a draft law aimed at creating a legal basis for the application of PSA agreements and the relaxation of some permit procedures for the use of mining deposits.

A total of 233 out of 412 MPs registered in the session hall supported the law.

KIEV, June 21 – Russia asked Ukraine to ship extra amounts of natural gas via its gas pipeline system to Europe after a debt dispute with Belarus had escalated, threatening supply disruptions.

KIEV, June 21 – Ukraine would use financial resources from the International Monetary Fund to pay its foreign debts and to maintain stability of its local currency, Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn said Monday.

KIEV, June 19 – Ukraine is planning to spend $250 million on gas imported in June and $1 billion on gas supplied in July, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said at a council on gas payments in Kiev on Friday.

According to the gas contracts signed between Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Russia's Gazprom in January 2009, the price of gas imported to Ukraine in the second quarter of this year dropped to $271 per 1,000 cubic meters, from $360 per 1,000 cubic meters in the first quarter.

KIEV, June 19 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny is likely to receive $698 million for gas transit in the first half of 2009 - 38.1% less than in the same period of last year, the Ukrainian president's office said.