KIEV, June 20 – The International Monetary Fund supports the continuation of active work on a program of cooperation with Ukraine, the press service of the Ukrainian government reported on Saturday.

KIEV, June 20 – The World Bank is ready to assist Ukraine in holding reforms in most import and promising areas.

This issue was discussed at a meeting of Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, Vice President of the World Bank Philippe Le Houerou and World Bank Regional Director for Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine Martin Raiser on Friday evening, the press service of the Ukrainian government reported on Saturday.

KIEV, June 20 — China’s President Hu Jintao on Monday oversaw the signing of business deals worth $3.5 billion on his first visit to Ukraine.

Hu said that the agreements in energy, technology, trade and other fields will bring bilateral relations “to a new level of strategic partnership,” the Associated Press reported.

SUMY, June 17 – President Viktor Yanukovych has said that it is currently premature to talk about the form of Ukraine's cooperation with any other countries in the modernization of the Ukrainian gas transport system.

KIEV, June 18 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is to send its recommendations on the program of the country's economic development to the Ukrainian authorities, Andre Kuusvek, the bank's representative in Ukraine, told the press on Thursday.

KIEV, June 18 – Improvement of relations between Ukraine and Russia is a key factor of stability in Eastern Europe, which fully meets the interests of the European Union, Germany's Bundestag President Norbert Lammert said during a meeting with a Ukrainian parliamentary delegation led by Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn.

KIEV, June 20 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Sunday rejected reports that Ukraine’s national gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny was going to be merged with Russia’s gas giant Gazprom.

KIEV, June 19 – Ukraine doesn’t have any other option but to resume cooperation – and borrowing – from the International Monetary Fund, Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko said Friday.

KIEV, June 19 - The depreciated cost of the facilities controlled by the Transport and Communications Ministry is estimated at UAH848 billion, according to the findings of an assessment held by the State Property Fund jointly with the ministry.

KIEV, June 19 - A delegation of Ukraine's Fuel and Energy Ministry and the State Concern Ukratomprom, led by Deputy Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Nedashkovsky, left for the Russian city of Angarsk on Monday.