General Secretary of the General People's Committee (Prime Minister) of Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmud arrived to Ukraine for official two-day visit in order to participate in the 4th sitting of the Ukrainian-Libyan Commission on cooperation.

A reinterment ceremony of remains of three soldiers - of the Halychyna division, of the German Wehrmacht and an unknown soldier, who died in July 1944 at Brody - took place at a cemetery between the villages of Chervone and

A briefing, based on the results of the sitting of a gas issues group in Brussels on July 17 of this year, was held by Ukraine's President Envoy for International Energy Security Bohdan Sokolovsky. In there journalists were informed that

A bodybuilding competition took place within the framework of the VIII World Games in Non-Olympic Sports. The Ukrainian team gained 5 awards at once, three of them - gold ones. They were won by Oleksandr Bilous (heavy weight), Beila Balog

In the main event of a huge boxing tournament billed as Champions' Summer which was held in Odessa by K2 East Promotions Avtandil Khurtsidze (19-1-2, 12 KOs) successfully defended the WBA Inter-Continental middleweight belt in the title bout against 29-year-old

Ukraine considers the energy sector to be the main strategic direction of the Libyan-Ukrainian cooperation, as reported by Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko at the 4th sitting of the Ukrainian-Libyan Commission on cooperation. According to her, Ukraine is interested in creation

Donetsk City Council Head Anatoliy Blyzniuk has said that Donetsk region is fully prepared for the UEFA European Under-19 Championship. He said that the region would manage to organize the event properly, and, as the tournament host, would demonstrate its

ElectroTyazhMash Plant (Kharkiv, Northeast Ukraine), one of the world's largest producers of water-turbine generators and electric engines, has produced two water-turbine generators with capacity of 28 MW for the Panamanian Bajo de Mina hydropower station, UKRINFORM reported quoting the company's

A jubilee silver coin of 1 dollar was released in Australia by the 300th anniversary of the Poltava battle, Poltava (Center Ukraine) Mayor Andriy Matkovskyi informed. "The coin, particularly, shows a fragment of the battle. The far-away continent with a

As of late June, the unemployment rate in Ukraine posted 2.4% of working-age population, the State Statistics Committee reported. In May, the unemployment was 2.6%, in April - 2.9%, in March 3.1%, in January to February - 3.2%. A total

Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko is going to participate in the upcoming presidential election, he told a rally on July 18 before climbing up the Goverla Mountain in West Ukraine, UKRINFORM correspondent reported. "I am running in the election in January

US Vice President Joe Biden is today arriving on a working visit to Ukraine. Joe Biden is scheduled to meet President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The parties will discuss preparations for a possible meeting of the Ukrainian

This year, Ukraine's Navy Zaporizhzhia submarine may get down to dockside trials after overhaul. The Ukrainian submarine has left a floating dry dock and moored, UKRINFORM correspondent reports. The submarine was launched on May 29, 1970 in Leningrad. The Zaporizhzhia

Kostiantyn Hryshchenko, the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to Russia, has today left on a working visit for four Russian regions bordering with Ukraine. During his 5-day visit he will attend Voronezh, Belgorod, Kursk and Briansk regions with the

President Viktor Yushchenko has congratulated President of the Republic of Columbia Alvaro Uribe Velez on the national holiday - Independence Day of Columbia. "I am convinced that with our joint efforts at the state level, a mutually beneficial cooperation between

The government has increased Ukreximbank's authorized capital by almost UAH 1 billion, the government web-site reports. According to a resolution, the authorized capital of the bank is extended at UAH 999,999,861.9 (USD 1 - UAH 7.65) by the way of

President Viktor Yushchenko has sent a telegram to his Serbian counterpart Boris Tadic delivering condolences over death of Serbian citizens in a terrible bus crash in Egypt, the presidential press-service reported. "We share pain of the Serbian people and mourn

Representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the World Bank (WB) call the reformation of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine as a major precondition for providing a loan to Ukraine. The relevant

NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine urges to stop 'building up hysteria' around the company's activity, a Naftogaz statement says. "Naftogaz of Ukraine yet again expresses its concern over another attempt of some officials from Ukraine and the European Union to give

The purchase rate of the cash US dollar at exchange offices of Ukrainian business banks on July 20 is 7.78-7.85 UAH/USD, and the sale rate is 7.9-7.95 UAH/USD. The purchase rate of the cash euro is 10.88-11.0 UAH/EUR, and the