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RUSSIA TO HELP IRAN BUILD NUCLEAR POWER FACILITY. While Prime Minister Chernomyrdin was giving assurances to U.S officials in Washington that Russia will not help Iran develop nuclear weapons, Russian officials announced in Moscow that a deal to help Iran construct a nuclear power plant will go ahead. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Bulgak said "there can be no reprimands" over the issue as Iran is a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency and has signed the Nonproliferation Treaty. Russian Minister for Atomic Energy Yevgenii Adamov has already said his country will continue work on the Bushehr plant and can provide the turbines that Ukraine has refused to supply. In Washington, Chernomyrdin responded to that announcement by saying that nuclear power technology has "no relation whatsoever to the technology involved in building weapons of mass destruction." BP

UKRAINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS 'NO' TO NATO. Gennady Udovenko said in Tokyo on 11 March that Ukraine, like Russia, has no intention of becoming a NATO member, ITAR-TASS reported. Udovenko, who is Japan in his capacity as chairman of the UN General Assembly, said Ukraine "is a non-aligned country and does not want to join" NATO. He added, however, that Ukraine will seek cooperation with the alliance. Volodymyr Horbulin, Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Secretary, said in Kyiv the same day that his country "has no plans to join NATO" but is working with it to "ensure collective security in Europe." Those statements differ from the equivocal comments made the previous day by Boris Tarasyuk, the head of the Ukrainian mission to NATO (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 11 March 1998). PB

EU OFFICIALS THREATEN KYIV OVER TAX DISPUTE. An EU delegation in Kyiv has threatened to withdraw support for Ukraine's entry into the World Trade Organization unless it repeals tax breaks granted to the automaker Daewoo, AFP reported on 10 March. Kyiv granted a 10-year exemption to Daewoo on profits and customs duties after it formed a joint venture with Ukrainian automaker AvtoZaz in September. It also recently put restrictions on the importing of used cars to Ukraine. The EU said such actions violate GATT and WTO regulations and has threatened Kyiv with sanctions if it fails to rescind the measures. PB