YEREVAN Jan 8 (NT- AFP) - For the first time since World War II, Ukraine has started to lose more people than it gains through migration. The UN Economic Commission for Europe said in its report published last December that Ukrainians flooding out of the country outnumbered those arriving in 1994 for the first time in 50 years. The commission said 270,000 people had left the beleaguered country, many of them qualified professionals, with 178,000 immigrating, producing a net loss to Ukraine of some 91,000 people. Ukraine has suffered severe economic difficulties since the collapse of the Soviet Union, with unemployment running unofficially at over 20 percent, persistently high inflation and a parliament hostile to economic reform and privatisation. AFP /AA1234/081616 GMT DEC 95

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