NATO leaders gave way to Russian pressure and delayed a decision to put the former Soviet states of Ukraine and Georgia on track for membership in the Western alliance, despite support for the idea from US President George W. Bush.
Russia will undertake all efforts in order not to let Ukraine's and Georgia's joining NATO, Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov stated. "We will do everything not to let acceptance of Ukraine and Georgia in NATO, and not to let
Speaker of the parliament Arseniy Yatsenyuk has opened morning sitting of the Verkhovna Rada. The ForUm's correspondent reports. 438 People's deputies are registered in the hall. Before the agenda consideration Yatsenyuk stated that he hadn't seen the draft bill on
In Tripoli, Libya the Ukrainian-Libyan talks took place headed by President Viktor Yushchenko and the Prime Minister of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmudi. President's press office reports. During the talks sides discussed prospects of developing
The parliament received a submission of President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko to discharge deputy head of the Central Election Commission Zhanna Usenko-Chorna. Nestor Shufrych, PR representative, stated in an interview with the ForUm's correspondent.According to Shufrych, the BYuT and the
The OU-PSD faction demands from Russia a confirmation or disproof of statements of RF President Vladimir Putin that Ukraine is not even a State. People's deputy from the OU-PSD Borys Tarasyuk stated in his speech in the parliament, the ForUm's
People's deputy from the Party of Regions faction Volodymyr Sivkovych considers that the President will have nothing to say in his traditional address to people and People's deputies in the Verkhovna Rada. He stated in an interview with the ForUm's
Ukrzaliznytsia has outlined guidelines to prepare railway transport for work during the European football finals in Ukraine in 2012. Particularly, high-speed traffic (up to 200 kmph) must link Kyiv with other hosting cities - first with Poltava, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk,
Kyiv— From 31 March to 4 April 2008, the Interconfessional AIDS Resource Centre (IARC) in conjunction with the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations offered an AIDS awareness seminar for ministers and parishioners alike.
