On July 3 President Leonid Kuchma signed a decree setting up an arbitration chamber to hear disputes between foreign investors and their Ukrainian partners. One... MORE

Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma and the leaders of NATO's 16 member countries signed yesterday in Madrid a Charter of Distinctive Partnership between the alliance and... MORE

The Romanian Senate yesterday ratified the treaty of good-neighborly relations with Ukraine by a vote of 65 to 50, with three abstentions. Some Senators of... MORE

The commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Gen. Volodymyr Antonets, yesterday suggested that Ukraine might scrap the 40 ex-Soviet strategic bombers it inherited unless the... MORE

The Cooperative Neighbor-97 exercise, held within the framework of NATO's Partnership for Peace program, is underway at Ukraine's Yavoriv training ground in Lviv region. Approximately... MORE

The recent dismissal of Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko was largely a response to Western exasperation with President Leonid Kuchma's failure to take the Ukrainian legislature... MORE

Ukrainian prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko resigned yesterday, ostensibly on grounds of ill health. He had been in office only since the end of May. President... MORE

Receiving Czech president Vaclav Havel in Kyiv, Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma deplored "the historic injustice that Ukraine, geographically situated near the center of Europe, has... MORE

By a vote of 165-92, Romania's Chamber of Deputies ratified on June 26 the Romanian-Ukrainian framework treaty signed on June 2 by Presidents Emil Constantinescu... MORE

Ukraine's current non-bloc status, enshrined in its constitution, "does not foreclose Ukraine's option to enter into new or already existing alliance systems," First Deputy Foreign... MORE