President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a climate conference in Glasgow, the press service of the head of state has reported.
“They noted the importance of intensifying political contacts at the highest level in order to deepen the comprehensive partnership between Ukraine and India. It was agreed to exchange visits in the near future, taking into account the pandemic situation,” the message says.
The parties noted the importance of mutual assistance in the fight against COVID-19. Zelensky expressed gratitude to the Government of India for providing Ukraine in February 2021 with half a million doses of the Indian vaccine Covishield, with which vaccination was started in Ukraine. The parties also discussed the possibilities of potential co-production of vaccines.
Zelensky and Modi positively noted the significant growth of economic and investment cooperation between the countries, despite the pandemic, and agreed to intensify the existing mechanisms of bilateral interaction – in particular, to hold a regular meeting of the joint Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Scientific, Technical, Industrial and Cultural Cooperation.
The parties also discussed certain aspects of practical cooperation in the military-technical sphere and aircraft construction.
Special attention was paid to issues of education and culture. The heightened interest of Indian students in obtaining education in Ukrainian institutions of higher education, including medical ones, was positively noted.
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 08/11/21
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A COVID certificate can be generated on the 15th day after the diagnosis of COVID-19 is established within 105 days.
This is confirmed by changes in the procedure for the formation and use of a COVID certificate confirming vaccination against COVID-19, as well as a negative test result or a person’s recovery from this disease.
The adopted changes, in particular, provide that a COVID certificate can be generated no more than twice in one calendar year (if it is technically possible to record the generated COVID certificates).
As reported, in the last four days of October, Ukrainians generated 1 million COVID certificates in the Diia application, their total number has already reached 5 million and continues to grow.
Earlier, the government made it easier to obtain COVID-certificates in Diia: now this does not require an electronic signature, in particular, Diia.Signature, which required proof of identity using a Photo ID.
The decree of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on planting 1 billion trees within three years from the start of its implementation in June of this year as of November 8 was executed by 3.53%, in total 35.38 million trees were planted (plus 8.14 million over the past week) on a total area of 6,078 hectares.
The relevant information has been posted on the website of the state program Green Country.
It is clarified that the leading regions in forestation are Zhytomyr region, where 12.69 million trees have been planted, as well as Volyn (3.25 million), Chernihiv (2.27 million), Lviv (2.24 million), Kyiv (2.07 million) and Rivne (1.98 million) regions.
The least number of trees were planted in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions: 19,000 and 46,000 trees respectively.
As reported, Zelensky in June 2021 signed a decree on the implementation of the Green Country project in Ukraine to increase the number of forests in Ukraine. The goal of the project is to increase the forest area by 1 million hectares in 10 years. It is also planned to plant 1 billion trees in Ukraine in the next three years.
According to head of the State Agency for Forest Resources Yuriy Bolokhovets, planting 1 billion trees is necessary to minimize the effects of global climate change, create protective belts of trees to protect against dust storms, as well as increase the country’s forest cover from the current 15.9% to the minimum required 20%.
Former coach of the Ukrainian national football team Andriy Shevchenko has taken over the leadership of the Italian Serie A club Genoa.“Genoa CFC announces that Andriy Shevchenko has reached an agreement with 777 Partners [an American investment company, the recent owner of the club] and will lead the ‘griffins’ until June 30, 2024,” a message posted on the club’s website says.According to Italian media, Shevchenko’s assistants will be Mauro Tassotti and Luigi Nocentini, who also helped him in the Ukrainian national team.After 12 rounds of Serie A, Genoa is in 18th place with nine points.Shevchenko as a player played for Dynamo Kyiv, Milan and Chelsea in 1994-2012. He is the winner of the 2004 Golden Ball title and the Hero of Ukraine. He headed the Ukrainian national team in 2016-2021, with which he reached the quarter final match of the European Championship 2020.
