President greets grain-growers of Kherson region

President Victor Yushchenko sent his congratulations with harvesting the second million tons of grain to agrarians of Kherson region.

President greets Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk regions grain-growers

President Victor Yushchenko sent his congratulations with harvesting the second and the third million tons of grain respectively to agrarians of Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk region.

President writes letters to heads of the damaged regions

President Victor Yushchenko wrote letters to Heads of Vinnytsya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattya, Ternopil, Chernivtsi Regional Administrations and to Deputy-Head of Lviv Regional Administration with the request to work out solution of accommodation problems for those, who lost their homes in the storms and floods.

“… I ask you to conduct questioning among these people in next 10 days… and offer them resettlement in safer places as well as, in this term, to designate the land plots for building new houses”, - said Victor Yushchenko in his letter.

On the results the Heads of Administrations are to inform President in person.

President thanks to other countries for helping Ukraine

President Victor Yushchenko wrote letters of gratitude to Heads of the States that rendered support to Ukraine in management of the consequences of July 23-27 storms in Ukraine.

Among the addressees were Presidents of Austria, Estonia, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, the USA, Russia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Uzbekistan, Belarus; Prime Minister of Spain, Federal Chancellor of Germany and Prime Minister of Japan.

President asks for help to school children

President Victor Yushchenko instructed Heads of Regional State Administrations in the regions, damaged by storms, to provide all families with school-aged children with all necessary support so that their children could begin learning normally on September 1.

“I ask Regional and District Administration Heads to help every family were there is a school pupil to find thousand hryvnyas before September 1 to be able to buy schoolbooks, a book case and a uniform”, - he said.

President comes to Mohyliv-Podilskyi

Within the framework of his working visit to Vinnytsya region President Victor Yushchenko came to Mohyliv-Podilskyi.

At his press conference in the city President Yushchenko announced that he has intention to gather a special meeting of NSDC dedicated to restoration works in six regions of Ukraine, damaged by the storms.

He also made positive remarks about actions of local and central authorities aimed at restoration of the damaged territories.

At the same time President pointed to insufficient financing of flood preventing measures.
“Neither of the past Governments did approach financing of flood preventing programs with care. It is evident that the consequences, we face today are resulting from insufficient financing of the state programs”, - he said.

With regard to that he informed that he is to instruct the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine to conduct an analysis of flood preventing programs financing in Ukraine since 2004 to determine causes for the situation.

Victor Yushchenko also repeated himself that the consequences of the disaster could have been less.

President signes law increasing excise for tobacco

President Victor Yushchenko signed the Law on increasing excise for tobacco products.