The DefenseMinistry of Ukraine will do all possible in order Ukraine to join NATO MembershipAction Plan this year. Defense Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Yekhanurov statedyesterday. As thepress service of the Defense Ministry informs, Ekhanurov noted: "The militarymen will do everything
PresidentViktor Yushchenko took part in 5th assembly of the World Movement for Democracy. President's press office reports.In hisaddress President Yushchenko stressed that Ukraine's cooperation with NATO andthe EU is strategic and country's membership in these structures is a doubtlessUkrainian perspective."Today
Deputy Foreign Minister of UkraineKonstantyn Yeliseyev who is on working visit to Croatia,has been accepted by Stjepan Mesić, Presidentof the Republic of Croatia.The Ukrainian diplomat has conveyed Mesić the personal message of President ofUkraine Viktor Yushchenko, which contains the congratulation
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko thinks that NATO decision is "completely positive - as it objectively states the current level and prospects of development of Ukraine's relations with the Alliance". Cabinet's press service reports. She believes that by its decision the
PresidentYushchenko met in Tripoli with the Ukrainiancommunity of Libya.The event was arranged at Ukrainian Embassy to Libya. President's press office reports. The Ukrainiansliving in Libya asked ViktorYushchenko about cultural development of Ukraine,the country's language policy, perspectives of Ukraine joining NATO,
People's deputy from the BYuT Ostap Semerakhas stated that he doesn't know about agreement of the BYuT and the PR to raiseminimum number of votes for political, which are necessary in order to enterthe VRU at the next parliamentary elections
The Partyof Regions and the bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko agreed to raise minimum number of votesfor political parties, which are necessary in order to enter the VRU at thenext parliamentary elections. Volodymyr Lytvyn made such statement on April 7. Accordingto
Within the frameworkof the official visit to the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya PresidentYushchenko held a meeting with Leader of this country Muammar al-Gaddafi. Themeeting was held in Marquee of the Leader and Guide of the Libyan Revolution onthe territory
The Jamaica Teachers Association (JTA) is insisting that it will not sign the MoU3. "The teachers have not benefited from the first MoU and they have not recovered since," said JTA President Ena Barclay. But, Danny Roberts, second vice-president of
Amid an internal audit of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), there are reports that the permits of several licensed firearm holders have been seized. Among the licensed firearm holders are prominent political activists and popular entertainers. "I understand that instructions...
The Director of health promotion and protection in the health ministry, Dr Eva Lewis-Fuller, says vector-borne diseases could increase as a result of the impact of climate change. Vector-borne diseases are transmitted to humans or other animals by an insect
WAYNE JONES, interim president of the 12-member Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU), has dismissed reports that only four unions are ready to sign the third public sector Memorandum of Understanding (MoU3) between the Government and public sector workers....
A little after sunrise on Easter Sunday, a mortar shell or rocketcrashed into Paul Converse's trailer inside the Green Zone, therigorously defended seat of U.S. power in Iraq. Converse, who once toldhis brother he felt safer in Iraq than on
The free ride for American consumers is ending. For two generations,Americans have imported goods produced ever more cheaply from asuccession of low-wage countries - first Japan and Korea, then China,and now increasingly places like Vietnam and India. Yet mounting inflation
The German government has been forced into an embarrassing turnaroundover its plans to lead a worldwide biofuels revolution on the roadsafter the discovery that too many cars would be unable to run on theproposed ethanol-petrol mix.The environment minister, SigmarGabriel, had
Document outlines powers but set no time limit on U.S. troop presence.A confidential draft agreement covering the future of U.S. forces inIraq, passed to the Guardian, shows that provision is being made for anopen-ended military presence in the country.The draft
The International Monetary Fund's executive board has approved a broadfinancial overhaul plan that could lead to the eventual sale of alittle over 400 tons of its substantial gold supplies. The sale cannot occur without congressional approval as well aslegislative action
The Carlyle Group hasformed a $1.35 billion fund to troll for bruised companies andsecurities less than a month after the failure of one of its owninvestments.The Washington, D.C.-based private-equity firm closed the new fund, CarlyleStrategic Partners II, last week, Carlyle
NASA climate scientist Dr. James Hansen warns the world must urgently make huge CO2 reductions.One of the world's leading climate scientists warned Monday that theEuropean Union and its international partners must urgently rethink targets forcutting carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
In a reprise of their testimony last September, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker plan to tell Congress Tuesday and Wednesday that security has improved in Iraq and that the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
