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The mission of the World Health Organization will visit Ukraine on November 2 to study the situation in the regions hit by the A(H1N1) flu epidemic.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko announced this after the conference call meeting chaired by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Saturday.

According to him, the mission will comprise five members.

Poroshenko said Ukraine is likely to receive humanitarian aid next week (November 2 through November 9).

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked the European Commission and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) provide Ukraine with humanitarian aid to help fight A(H1N1) flu epidemic.

Ukraine intends to ask the World Health Organization and the international community to provide anti-viral medicines as humanitarian aid because of the epidemic of the A(H1N1) influenza in the country.

Russia intending to help Ukraine fight the A(H1N1) epidemic.

India intends to provide Ukraine with medicines for preventing the influenza epidemic in the country from spreading.

On October 30, the Health Ministry declared the A(H1N1) epidemic in Ukraine.