KYIV, Sept 20 - Foreign pharmaceutical companies are ready to provide Ukraine with instruments that will give access to innovative medicines without reducing the level of protection of intellectual property rights.

"The companies that are members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine are ready to actively join this work and cooperate with all the interested parties to ensure effective solutions," Vitaliy Gordienko, the co-chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce's (AmCham) Healthcare Committee, said when presenting the issues of patients' access to innovative medicines, which took place in Kyiv at the beginning of the week.