ABH Ukraine Limited, the holders of 90.1% of shares in Ukrainian Alfa-Bank, has issued new two-year EUR 50 mln loan participation notes (LPNs), setting the coupon rate at 6.75% per annum with the quarterly payments.
The bank said on Thursday that the maturity date is July 6, 2021.
The bonds were issue under S Rules with listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
The bank recalled that the bond issue was the 16th issue by ABH Ukraine since early 2015.
As reported, at the end of October 2016, the operation was completed on the transfer of 99.9% of the shares in PJSC Ukrsotsbank from UniCredit Group in favor of ABH Holdings S.A. (ABHH), whose main asset in Ukraine is Alfa-Bank, in exchange for a minority share of ownership in ABHH in the amount of 9.9%.
Currently ABH Holdings S.A. is consolidating assets in Ukraine, which will lead to the creation of the country’s largest private bank based on Alfa-Bank.
Changes to the national construction standards on designing of parking areas on trafficable roofs of shopping and entertainment centers will take effect from July 1, 2019, the press service of Deputy Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Minister Lev Partskhaladze has reported.
“The new changes in the construction standards on the design of parking areas and garages allow placing car parking on the trafficable roofs of public buildings and structures, for example, malls and shopping and entertainment centers, administrative and other facilities. The exception is kindergartens, schools and hospital buildings with wards. The requirement comes into force on July 1,” the press service said.
These parking areas should have emergency exits, as well as take into account the requirements of the national construction standards Planning and Development of Territories in terms of fire-fighting distances to adjacent buildings and electrical installation rules. At the same time, the placement of temporary shelters for cars on such facilities is prohibited.
The changes in national construction standard V.2.3-15-2007 Parking Areas and Garages for Passenger Cars were developed by PJSC Ukrainian Zonal Research and Project Institute for Civil Construction.
On Tuesday, July 2, at 12.30, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency will host a press conference devoted to possible illegal seizure of harvest of Danish DFU Agro (subsidiary of Dan-Farm Ukraine LLC). Participants include: Director of DFU Agro LLC Vadym Shestakov, representatives of the Zhytomyr Regional Administration, representatives of the Danish Embassy in Ukraine, and representatives of leading business associations (8/5a Reitarska Street). Registration of journalists requires press accreditation.
Representative of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk has said that the most important and urgent changes to the Constitution of Ukraine must be made within coming year. “I think that the most important things should be made in the first year, because this first year we, first, have a lot of support from the people of Ukraine. Secondly, having the worked out mechanisms, we have the opportunity of passing them through the Verkhovna Rada. And, thirdly, we have the opportunity of monitoring how they achieved their goal,” he said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
Stefanchuk said that the analysis of all recent changes to the Constitution showed that about 20 or even more articles do not have a definitive version. “Today we have come to a situation where we do not have the only true legally interpreted text of the Constitution. This is the result of not thoughtful, not verified and not planned work of the Verkhovna Rada, which today has led to the fact that the state, celebrating Constitution Day, has no single unified text of the Constitution,” he said.
The presidential representative in the Rada also considers it wrong that any reform of the Constitution concerned a change in public authorities, but a question of guarantees of human and civil rights had no standing in the country.
Stefanchuk said that it is necessary to conduct a “functional audit of the state” and clearly define which institution is responsible for what.
The representative of Zelensky in parliament said that the possibility of adopting a new Constitution is still a matter of discussion, and there are different approaches.
Leader of the Ukrainian Batkivschyna party Yulia Tymoshenko has said the country needs a new constitution. “Ukraine needs a new Constitution,” Tymoshenko said on the Ukraina television channel on Friday.
The current one is not working for the protection of human rights, she said. The text of the Fundamental Law should be written by the public with “broad, large-scale debate, with the understanding of every comma and every letter,” she said.
“Essentially, this should be a public agreement among all citizens and not the top-down rules that benefit officials and politicians,” she said.
A new constitution should be adopted at a referendum, “not as a mere formality, but for real, so that people know what they spell out in that constitution and what they gain from it,” she said.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Iran, Ukraine, Syria, and Venezuela at their talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka on Friday, the White House said in a report. “They also discussed the situations in Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and Ukraine,” the White House said.
The presidents also exchanged opinions on issues such as bilateral relations and arms control, it said.
The meeting between Trump and Putin continued for almost an hour and a half.
