President Viktor Yushchenko hopes that a decision on Ukraine’s accession to the Energy Community Treaty will be taken at the December 18 meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Energy Community, he has said this in Lutsk when on a meeting with lecturers and students of Volyn National University named after Lesya Ukrainka. The head of state pointed a significant progress over the last four years on the way toward Eurointegration. .The matter concerns a political decision, signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU,. Yushchenko emphasized. Besides, the Ukrainian President stated that a considerable work has been done in creating free trade zone. .We have passed three-quarter of these negotiations for today,. he underscored. As UKRINFORM reported, Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko said during a joint press conference with his Israeli counterpart Avigdor Liberman that Ukraine would sign the Agreement on Association with the European Union in 2010. Poroshenko specified that the agreement cannot be signed without a free trade treaty” .This is an absolutely new form of cooperation between Ukraine and the EU, which needs thorough elaboration of each specific commodity group, protecting the interests of both the Ukrainian producer and the Ukrainian economy,. Poroshenko said. He reminded that Ukraine did similar work in 12 years during accession to the World Trade Organization. “I assure the process will be completed in 2010, and the Association Agreement will be signed in 2010. According to our optimistic hopes, this is going to be done in the first half of the next year,. Poroshenko emphasized.
The photo shows an actor playing zebra during the action Zebra - krashchy druh pishohoda (Zebra is the best friend of pedestrian) held by employees of the Regional Department of the State Road Traffic Inspectorate of Ukraine in Mykolayiv, Ukraine, November 10, 2009.
MYKOLAYIV. On tuesday, employees of the Regional Department of the State Road Traffic Inspectorate of Ukraine held an action entitled Zebra - krashchy druh pishohoda (Zebra is the best friend of pedestrian) aiming to decrease road traffic accidents in Mykolayiv. For the purpose, inspectors helped old people, children and other pedestrians to cross the street without threat to their lives. During the action employees of the Regional Department of the State Road Traffic Inspectorate conducted public awareness efforts as well as distributed some special instruction booklets among Mykolayiv residents.
KYIV, November 12 . According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Ukraine exported main types of weapons in 2008, which were estimated at USD 233 million, and became the 14th country in the global rating of arms exporting countries.
In 2007, Ukraine was ranked seventh with USD 774 million worth of arms exports.
According to the SIPRI, the world’s top three arms exporters were the United States (USD 6.159 billion), Russia (USD 5.953 billion), and Germany (USD 2.837 billion).
In 2004-2008, Ukraine became the ninth arms exporter with USD 2.083 billion. The United States was first (USD 34.901 billion), Russia second (USD 28.563 billion), Germany third (USD 11.45 billion), and France fourth (USD 9.607 billion).
A model catwalks representing a creation by Ukrainian designer Ayna Hasse of her Spring/Summer 2010 collection on November 4, 2009 in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. UKRINFORM. /ND/
KYIV. A fashion show by Ukrainian designer Ayna Hasse was held in Kyiv. Head of the State Committee of Ukraine for Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship Oleksandra Kuzhel and President of the model agency “Karina” Vlada Lytovchenko attended the show. /ND/
Deputy Head of the Yuriy Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut Yuriy Gidzenko (C) participates in the opening ceremony of a new exhibition devoted to space ships at the Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet in Mykolayiv, Ukraine, October 31, 2009. UKRINFORM.
MYKOLAYIV. Recently, a new exhibition devoted to space ships was opened at the Mykolayiv Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet - a unique museum in the CIS countries. Being invited by Mykolayiv Mayor Volodymyr Chayka, its guest of honour became Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut Yuriy Gidzenko (born in Mykolayiv), a Hero of the Russian Federation, and currently Deputy Head of the Yuriy Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center who entered space three times. He was accompanied by his friends and mother during the event. Within the frames of the meeting Yuriy Gidzenko told that different high positions of the Yuriy Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center are occupied by five Mykolayiv residents. The cosmonaut has also presented some exhibits for the museum, in particular, photos of Mikolayiv and its surroundings made from the space at heights of 400 km, a uniform coat decorated with all necessary cosmonautic stripes and the Star of Hero as well as some samples of food for cosmonauts. /TF/
The victory on Saturday saw Ukraine move a point ahead of Croatia into second place in Group Six, and a win in their final game against Andorra will put them into the playoffs.
England, who had a 100 percent qualifying record under Fabio Capello, produced a sub-standard performance and were under constant pressure from the 13th minute when goalkeeper Robert Green was sent off.
Andriy Shevchenko missed the resulting spot-kick, but Serhiy Nazarenko ensured Ukraine ran out winners in Dnipropetrovsk when he struck what turned out to be the winner in the 29th minute.
England had already qualified for the World Cup, but their hopes of taking a flawless record to the World Cup looked unlikely after Green was shown a red card for a professional foul on Artem Milevskiy inside the penalty area.
Milevskiy took advantage of a lapse in concentration by Rio Ferdinand and had a clear run on goal before Green brought him down. Referee Damir Skomina did not hesitate to point to the spot before showing Green the red card.
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Nibulon Agricultural Limited Liability Company (Mykolayiv), one of Ukraine’s farm goods producers and exporters, is implementing an investment program worth USD 150 million on the construction of 7 elevator and river terminals, as well as on the creation of own river fleet.
In particular, the construction of two elevators in Poltava region and a river terminal in Cherkasy region is ahead of schedule and will be completed in less than three months.
According to Poltava region governor Valeriy Asadchev, Nibulon’s project is the most important one being presently implemented in the region.
In frames of the large-scale investment project, the company will also create own fleet (24 non-self-propelled dry-cargo river-sea ships, 7 tugboats). The first four non-self-propelled vessels have been already launched and another 4 ships will be put into service in mid October.
Nibulon Agricultural Limited Liability Company cultivates more than 70,000 ha of land. Owing to the company, Ukraine has opened new markets for export of Ukraine’s farm goods after a long break - Egypt, Israel, Indo-China countries. In 2008/09 MY, Nibulon exported 4.6 million tons of grain and oil crops.
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No Ukrainian Adoption For Elton John
Kiev, Ukraine - Elton John will not be able to adopt a 14-month-old Ukrainian child because the pop star is too old and isn’t traditionally married, Ukraine’s minister for family affairs said Monday.
The pop signer toured a hospital for HIV-infected children in eastern Ukraine on Saturday as part of a charity project and said that he and his male partner David Furnish wanted to adopt an HIV-infected boy named Lev.
But the country’s Family, Youth and Sports Minister Yuriy Pavlenko told The Associated Press that adoptive parents must be married and Ukraine does not recognize homosexual unions as marriage.
Euronews in Ukrainian language to appear on First National TV channel
President Viktor Yushchenko met Euronews President and Executive Director Philipp Cayla. The meeting was held on the occasion of signing an Agreement on September 11 between the National TV and Radio Broadcasting Company and the Euronews information service on setting up the Ukrainian language version of the Euronews. The matter concerns a 15 minute newscast from Monday and till Friday on the First National TV channel (the agreement is valid till the year end with its following prolongation).
The President highly appraised setting up by the NTRC and the Euronews a short version of the well-known European TV channel. In his conviction, the European state cannot be aside of the world integration processes, including in the information sphere.
“This project is one of small pages of our Eurointegration, since it is the thing that can make us closer most of all - the unified information space”, he said.
According to Philippe Cayla, next step of cooperation should be work over full Ukrainian version of Euronews.
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Redhead Day
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By Clare Spencer
Breda, Netherlands
Clare Spencer
The idea of a ginger festival may sound like little more than a bit of fun, but when 3,000 redheads came together for a recent gathering it became a bonding experience.
Bart Rouwenhorst steps on to his crane and slowly rises above his ginger empire. A sea of redheads all dressed in white look up from the park below and follow his instructions to wave at the 20 or so photographers and cameramen.
The photo shoot is the culmination of celebrations for Redhead Day - an annual day - which has spilled across a weekend - to mark all things ginger, paid for by the local government in Breda, a city in the south east of the Netherlands.