KIEV, Oct. 14 - Ukraine's Industrial Policy Ministry has completed work on a new version of the state program for the development and reform of the mining and metals sector in the period to 2012.

"The Industrial Policy Ministry has already completed work on the new version," Deputy Minister Serhiy Hryschenko said on Oct. 9 at an international conference in Dnipropetrovsk on the strategy for the development of engineering enterprises in the modernization of the mining and metals sector, the ministry reported.