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US advises Ukraine not to propose its own resolution on peacekeepers in Donbas, but instead to reach agreement with Russia
The US advised Ukraine not to introduce a competing resolution on the UN peacekeeping mission in the Donbas in response to the Russian resolution, but rather to attempt to reach an agreement, as expressed by US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker.
“Several years ago Ukraine introduced the idea of deploying a UN peacekeeping mission in Eastern Ukraine. At the time Russia was not willing to look into it. When Russia put forward its own idea in September, Ukraine was …
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IMF: Ukraine lost 2 percent of its GDP due to corruption
In a speech at the 8th Annual Ukrainian Investment Forum on Friday, the Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Ukraine, Gösta Ljungman, said that Ukraine's losses due to corruption amount to 2% of GDP.
"In Ukraine, there is no genuine fight against corruption. Corruption costs Ukraine 2% of its economic growth, so the fight against it is an issue of economic prosperity," Ljungman said.
He stated that the next important step in this direction should be the creation …
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Ukraine: 22 foreign ships illegally entered Crimean ports in October
22 cargo ships illegally entered the ports of the annexed Crimea in October, reports the press service of the Ministry for Temporary Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine.
"Between October 1 and November 1 of this year, 22 calls of cargo vessels were recorded trespassing at ports in the occupied Crimea. In general, these vessels carried out 64 calls to the ports of Kerch, Sevastopol and Feodosia," the ministry said.Of these vessels, 18 sailed under the Russian flag, …
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UN: There are 35,000 people in Ukraine without citizenship
In Ukraine, as of 2017, there are 35,000 people without citizenship, as stated in a report by the United Nations Refugee Agency.
According to the report, at least 10 million people across the world do not have citizenship and a third of them are children.
It was also reported that during the census in 2001 in Ukraine, 82,000 people said that they do not have citizenship. Most of these people lived in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and the Odessa, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
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Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs: There are no anti-Polish sentiments in Ukraine
There are no anti-Polish sentiments in Ukraine and the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians see Poland as a friend, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine said on Friday, November 3rd, in response to a statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Witold Jan Waszczykowski, in which he threatened to deny entry to Ukrainians who are against Poland.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, though acknowledging certain differences between Ukraine and Poland concerning their perception of the …