She said she was extremely encouraged by Ukraine’s economic progress but urged Kiev to continue the fight to end corruption.
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Other bondholders such as Russian Federation are to vote on the agreement this month.
“The world has a right to know who’s responsible for this disastrous terrorist attack”, Poroshenko said.
On Wednesday, Ukraine’s National Security Council endorsed a new military doctrine that called for the country to pursue North Atlantic Treaty Organisation membership.
“I will not give away a single piece of the Ukrainian land”, Poroshenko said in an interview on the Channel 5 television on Sept.6 evening.
In 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich agreed that Russia would purchase $15 billion in Ukrainian bonds.
The doctrine reverses Russia’s previous friendly status and recognizes the high probability of full-scale military force being applied against Ukraine.
The US Federal Reserve should not rush its decision to raise interest rates and should move only when it is sure the decision is unlikely to be reversed later, the head of the worldwide Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said over the weekend. “This is a huge shift in public opinion”. And is the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation… ready to invite Ukraine?
“Russia will not get any better conditions than these under any circumstances”, Poroshenko, standing alongside Lagarde, added.
“Our top priority is [achieving] unity within the pro-Ukrainian global coalition”.
One can only speculate as to why Poroshenko has now said that there is no way he will carry through the “special administrative status” provision, provision #11, of the Minsk II Accords.
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The hotly contested decentralization measure, which was initially ratified Monday, requires final approval from a parliamentary supermajority of 300 votes and the passage of a separate law. In order to protect himself against the possiblility of being violently overthrown as his predecessor Yanukovych had been, he filed a case with Ukraine’s supreme court, the Constitutional Court, to recognize officially that Yanukovych had illegally been removed from the Presidency.
