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Financial Post, Weekly edition, Tue 03 Oct 95, page 2
WORLD NEWS: Canada


UKRAINE ASKS CANADA TO PRESS G-7 FOR HELP

Ukraine asked Canada yesterday to put pressure on its wealthy allies to provide financing to help it meet its commitment to close the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Prime Minister Yevhen Marchuk used a visit by the premier of Saskatchewan to complain that some members of the Group of Seven industrialized countries, particularly France, were being unhelpful in trying to devise a plan to shut down the power station by the year 2000. ``The United States has a constructive position on Chernobyl and Canada also views all parts of the problem with understanding,'' Marchuk told Premier Roy Romanow. Romanow said he understood Ukraine's concerns, but help for the former Soviet republic depended on federal authorities in Canada, which currently chairs the G-7. Ukraine says it needs US$4 billion to close the plant, the site of a massive nuclear accident in 1986.



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