n Party of Ukraine, Vitaliy
KONONOV, leader; Liberal Party of Ukraine; Liberal Democratic Party of
Ukraine, Volodymyr KLYMCHUK, chairman; Democratic Party of Ukraine,
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych YAVORIVSKIY, chairman; People's Party of
Ukraine, Leopol'd TABURYANSKYY, chairman; Peasants' Party of Ukraine,
Serhiy DOVHRAN', chairman; Party of Democratic Rebirth (Revival) of
Ukraine, Volodymyr FILENKO, chairman; Social Democratic Party of
Ukraine, Yuriy VUZDUHAN, chairman; Socialist Party of Ukraine,
Oleksandr MOROZ, chairman; Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party,
Vitaliy ZHURAVSKYY, chairman; Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party,
Stepan KHMARA, chairman; Ukrainian Labor Party, Valentyn LANDYK,
chairman; Ukrainian Party of Justice, Mykhaylo HRECHKO, chairman;
Ukrainian Peasants' Democratic Party, Serhiy PLACHINDA, chairman;
Ukrainian Republican Party, Mykhaylo HORYN', chairman; Ukrainian
National Conservative Party, Viktor RADIONOV, chairman; Ukrainian
People's Movement for Restructuring (Rukh), Vyacheslav CHORNOVIL,
chairman; Ukrainian Communist Party, Petr SYMONENKO; Agrarian Party;
Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, S. STESTKO; Civil Congress, O.
BAZYLUK; Party of Economic Revival of Crimea; Democratic Party Of
Ukraine, Serhiy DOVMAN', chairman

Other political or pressure groups: New Ukraine (Nova Ukrayina);
Congress of National Democratic Forces

Member of: BSEC, CCC, CE (guest), CEI (associate members), CIS, EBRD,
ECE, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT
(nonsignatory user), INTERPOL, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO, ITU, NACC,
OSCE, PCA, PFP, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNPROFOR, UPU, WHO, WIPO,
WMO

Diplomatic representation in US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Yuriy SHCHERBAK
chancery: 3350 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007
telephone: [1] (202) 333-0606
FAX: [1] (202) 333-0817
consulate(s) general: Chicago and New York

US diplomatic representation:
chief of mission: Ambassador William Green MILLER
embassy: 10 Yuria Kotsyubinskovo, 252053 Kiev 53
mailing address: use embassy street address
telephone: [7] (044) 244-73-49, 244-37-45
FAX: [7] (044) 244-73-50

Flag: two equal horizontal bands of azure (top) and golden yellow
represent grainfields under a blue sky

@Ukraine:Economy

Overview: After Russia, the Ukrainian republic was far and away the
most important economic component of the former Soviet Union,
producing more than three times the