At its September 26 session in Strassburg the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe decided to recommend Ukraine for full membership of the CE.... MORE

The European Parliament approved a proposal on September 22 to grant Ukraine a further balance-of-payments loan of up to 200 million ECU over a ten-year... MORE

At a meeting in Riga, the Ukrainian and Latvian defense ministers Valery Shmariv and Maris Gailis agreed that Ukraine will extend material and technical assistance... MORE

The Ukrainian parliament voted overwhelmingly on September 19 to include gas and oil pipelines on the list of enterprises exempt from privatization. In addition the... MORE

Abiding by the terms of the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE), Ukraine has been reducing its combat hardware on schedule and will probably... MORE

Ukrainian first deputy foreign minister Borys Tarasyuk criticized Russian president Boris Yeltsin's call, published last week, to unify CIS countries' foreign and defense policy. Tarasyuk... MORE

In a September 15 statement, Ukraine's foreign ministry welcomed the Bosnian Serbs' agreement to withdraw heavy guns from around Sarajevo and the suspension of NATO... MORE

In separate statements September 13, Estonian president Lennart Meri and Lithuanian chief delegate to the Council of Europe Algirdas Gricius said that their countries deemed... MORE

A special session of the North Atlantic Council approved September 14 Ukraine's individual program of cooperation with NATO under the Partnership for Peace program. Presented... MORE

. The Hetman Sahaydachny, one of Ukraine's main warships, participates in the Cooperative Partner 95 naval exercises, scheduled for September 11-16 in the Black Sea... MORE