EUROPEAN UNION SETS CONDITIONS FOR UKRAINIAN MEMBERSHIP.

Ukrainemust have domestic stability and control of its territorial integrityif it is to be able to join the European Union sometime in thefuture. That is the message EU officials delivered to Kiev June28, Interfax reported June 29. The EU officials also told thenews service that the EU and Ukraine had made progress in resolvingtheir differences over the funding of the closure of Chernobyl,but the officials refused to provide any information on the amountof money involved. Ukraine has asked for $4 billion to close thetroubled plant; European officials have been unwilling to offeranything close to that amount in the past.

Kravchuk: Yeltsin Wants Crimea Back.