Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych appreciates the role of the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a platform to debate the most pressing issues of the modern world, he said this at a meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos with the WEF founder Klaus Schwab, the president's press office reported Friday.
"The challenges dictated by this time - are tough, and we must seek an adequate response to them. Creating the right conditions allows to hear the position of partners, to look at short-term perspective and plan a strategy in different directions," Yanukovych emphasized.
2012.01.27 16:30
Don Charles, the trainer for British heavyweight boxer Dereck Chisora, has said that Chisora is in good shape and that he is prepared for a fight against WBC world heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko of Ukraine.
2012.01.27 16:17
If Ukraine claims the supplies of large batches of Iraqi oil and gas, it stands a good chance of getting a contract, Iraq's Ambassador to Ukraine Shorsh Khalid Saeed said in an interview
2012.01.27 15:30
The resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) entitled "The functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine," which was adopted in Strasbourg on January 26, is the last warning to the Ukrainian authorities
2012.01.27 14:11
Volodymyr Fesenko, director of the center for applied political studies Penta, says that neither Yulia Tymoshenko, nor Yuriy Lutsenko will be automatically released in the case the European Court passes a positive verdict on their cases.
2012.01.27 13:53
The complete number of Olympic berths for Ukrainian athletes will be known in May-June 2012. Now Ukrainian athletes claim Olympic berths in such sports as diving, shooting, sailing, wrestling, rowing, kayaking and canoeing, taekwondo, synchronized swimming and boxing.
This week, at their first in 2012 plenary session MEPs have elected new President of the European Parliament. He is 56 years old Social Democrat from Germany, Martin Schulz, who in the first round gained an absolute majority of his colleagues' votes. Schultz will be managing the European Parliament for the next two and a half years, until the end of the term of the current composition of the EU legislative institution. Alexander Mirsky, MEP (Latvia)
"As referred to the Association Agreement and the European integration in general, at this forum it became clear that many officials from the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have held a tremendous amount of work to draft the agreement. We have also learned how big project is the agreement in the context of Ukraine's approximation to the EU," Lange emphasized.
