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KYIV, Ukraine, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Ukraine has opened the rocket engine airframes disposal facility in Dnipropetrovsk oblast. Its operation allows for environmentally friendly disposal of the RS-22 (SS-24) missile components and contributes to international security. The launch of the facility has been the result of negotiations between the U.S. President Barack Obama and the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych back in April 2010. Ukraine has entered...

WASHINGTON, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the US-Ukraine Observer: American professional basketball players David Wood, James Bartolotta, Paul Grant, Anthony Bonner and William Alexsen recently brought together for a visit to Ukraine to spread spiritual diplomacy - the concept of ending conflicts within and among nations by relying on spiritual values. Several years ago Mikhail Gorbachev called Spiritual Diplomacy: "The New Road to...

KYIV, Ukraine, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Council of the European Union has approved ratification of the amended EU-Ukraine visa facilitation agreement. It is expected that the agreement will come into force starting July 1, 2013, said Ukraine's commissioner on foreign policy and integration processes and representative to the EU Kostiantyn Yeliseyev. The agreement expands the categories of Ukrainian citizens eligible for the simplified procedure of getting free...

KYIV, Ukraine, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ukrainian government has expressed its "disappointment" at the decision by the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to place it on a piracy watch list at a time when seizures of pirated digital media in the country have gone up five-fold. Ukraine is now a Priority Foreign Country (PFC), according to the USTR's "301 List", a decision Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister, Konstantyn Gryshchenko, said "ignores the efforts of...

WASHINGTON, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the US-Ukraine Observer: Long-time senior advisor to President Ronald Reagan, Peter Hannaford has warned against sanctions on the senior Ukraine government leaders should Kiev not meet conditions for the European Union's Association Agreement. Writing for the leading conservative publication, The American Spectator, Hannaford writes: "A democratic and economically strong Ukraine is important to...

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the US-Ukraine Observer: Former U.S. Admiral and commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet has observed that the Obama administration must strengthen ties with Ukraine to prevent Moscow from dragging Ukraine into a "revised quasi-USSR relationship." In his regular column in The Washington Times, Admiral James A. Lyons writes: "Moscow is taking every opportunity to strong-arm Ukraine back...

KYIV, Ukraine, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Signing the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union would be advantageous for both sides, stated the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Ukraine Simon Smith, as reported by unian.ua. This statement was a "common belief and common vision" of the entire EU, reiterated the UK Ambassador at the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on European Integration. The EU is convinced...

KYIV, Ukraine, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The pardon and release from jail of the former two-time interior minister of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko is a step to restoring Ukraine's image and will near Association Agreement signing, reckons the President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski. While on the phone with the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, President Komorowski thanked Ukraine's head of state for pardoning the convicted Lutsenko. Komorowski appreciated Ukraine's...

KYIV, Ukraine, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States will assist Ukraine on the issues of nuclear security and help completely remove the remains of highly enriched uranium (HEU). Such statement was made during the meeting between President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman. In addition to nuclear security the parties also discussed Ukraine's intentions to join the European Union. "We are ready...

KYIV, Ukraine, February 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The leaders of the European Union have acknowledged Ukraine's European aspirations and confirmed their intention to sign Association Agreement (AA), including a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) with Ukraine in 2013. Such was the statement jointly made by Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, President of the European Commission and Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine,...