Kiev- Polish Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) is considering a buy-in to Ukraine's growing stocks and securities industry, a WSE official said Wednesday.

Poland's leading trading site for company shares, the WSE is conducting talks on the purchase of Ukraine's Indeks stock exchange, said Ludwik Sobolewski, WSE President.

Results of the talks will be made public by September, said Beata Jarosz, a WSE board member, speaking at a Kiev press conference.

Kiev - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Friday vetoed a major bill on import and export duties, charging parliament was attempting to evade World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.

Much of the tariff regulation changes supported by the pro-West wing of Ukraine's parliament were in line with WTO restrictions, but loopholes and pork barrel clauses in the suggested law made a Presidential veto inevitable, Yushchenko said.

Kiev- Leaders of the growing black community in Ukraine appealed to President Viktor Yushchenko for assistance after the street death of another African national, Korrespondent magazine reported Wednwesday.

Sunday Alderaji, an evangelical preacher and a leading member of the Nigerian diasphora in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, told the STB television station that increasing racism in the former Soviet republic was responsible for almost daily attacks against dark- skinned persons, and murders on monthly basis.

"The situation is getting worse and worse," he said.

Kiev - Officials at the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on Tuesday predicted the country's galloping inflation will soon slow down to a still-hefty 16 per cent annual rate, the Interfax news agency

Kiev - Ukrainian rescue workers Tuesday were still looking for at least 12 miners unaccounted for after a massive underground explosion, the Interfax news agency reported.

Kiev  - Rescuers found two miners Monday morning, though dozens remained trapped underground after a gas explosion in a coal mine in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk, according to Ukranian television.

It remained unclear how many of the 35 miners survived Sunday's methane gas explosion, 1,000 metres below the surface, but voices of some survivors were heard at a depth of 700 metres, officials said.

The rescuers are racing against time amid fears of flooding in the Karl Marx mine in Yenakiyevo, 60 kilometres north-east of the regional capital Donetsk.

According to executives of the coal company Orzhonakidzeugol, the mine was lightly manned at the time of the explosion as it had been closed Saturday due to safety considerations.