1.   The accord was concluded on Wednesday night in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin of Russia and his Ukrainian counterpart, Pavlo Lazerenko.

2.   Perry and his Ukrainian counterpart sign a military cooperation treaty.

3.   Peres discussed Ukrainian-Israeli cooperation in the economic, trade and legislative spheres with his Ukrainian counterpart Anatoliy Zlenko.

4.   Polish Defense Minister Stanislaw Dobrzanski met with his Ukrainian counterpart, Olexander Kuzmuk, toward the end of a two-day visit to the neighboring nation.

5.   Polish Prime Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz signed an agreement with his Ukrainian counterpart Thursday on weapons trade and military cooperation.

6.   After signing the pact with his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kuchma, Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered his government to ease trade barriers.

7.   Among the agreements signed by the Brazilian delegation and Ukrainian counterparts was one allowing the creation of space research center in Brazil.

8.   Argentine President Carlos Menem met with his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kuchma on Friday and signed accords on trade and on cooperation in space technology.

9.   Austrian Defense Minister Werner Fasslabend met on Thursday with his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksandr Kuzmuk to discuss mutual cooperation and European security issues.

10.   Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko plans to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kuchma in the Crimea on Wednesday and Thursday, a news agency said.