UKRAINE EARNS EUROPEAN UNION SUPPORT PLEDGES.

In a letter to Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, made public in Kiev over the weekend, European Commission Chairman Jacques Santer welcomed Ukraine’s commitment to economic reform and its advances in macroeconomic stabilization, privatization, and openness to foreign investment. (The European Commission is the executive arm of the EU.) Santer promised European Union assistance in improving Ukraine’s investment legislation, financing the Chernobyl nuclear power plant closure, and granting Ukraine the transitional economy status entailing facilities in trade with the EU. (Interfax-Ukraine, April 12)

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