KIEV, June 12 – Ukraine's Industry Ministry has drawn up a draft program on the development of the mining and metallurgical sectors for the period until 2012, according to Deputy Industry Minister Serhiy Hryschenko.

"We're ready to submit the draft program to the government," he said at a discussion of the situation in the mining and metallurgical sectors and ways to counter negative trends in the sector by the parliamentary committee for industrial and regulatory policies and entrepreneurship on Wednesday.