On February 28 President Victor Yushchenko will go with a working visit to Lviv region, President’s Press Secretary Iryna Vannykova informed today at her briefing.
Within the framework of the visit President Yushchenko will meet President Lech Kaczynski of Poland. The two Presidents then will take part in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of Huta Pieniacka massacre.
Informing the media about the results of today’s meeting on coordination of state authorities’ work, President Victor Yushchenko said that the participants have reached agreement to realize three major steps.
The first step would be signature of a joint declaration today, on the state of economy in Ukraine, affirming readiness of all the parties to unite their efforts in fighting the crisis.
The second step would be elaboration of single position on cooperation between Ukraine and the IMF. The President informed also that a working group would elaborate a document, demonstrating joint political will of all the branches of power to provide implementation of concrete economic projects. As agreed by participants of the meeting this document is to be presented on March 2, at 15.00 to be presented for initialing.
Within the framework of the third step, representatives of the sides that took part in the meeting would form a working group to elaborate a joint anti-crisis package. President Yushchenko said that it first of all regards budgetary and general economic issues.
‘The first practical test will be the subject of relations with international financial organizations”, - said President Yushchenko at the meeting on coordination of state authorities work in times of economic crisis.
President Yushchenko emphasized that it is crucial to renew talks with the IMF within a week. “Resuming talks with the IMF is an expediency test of our today’s meeting. Time is against us. Our today’s task is to prepare a plan that would allow us to resume talks with the IMF”, - he said.
The president explained that successful cooperation between Ukraine and the IMF would provide a signal to other organizations, states and investors that “Ukrainian authorities do know the way out of the crisis”.
President Victor Yushchenko invited Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn, National Bank Chairman Volodymyr Stelmakh and representative of Party of Regions’ parliamentary group Mykola Azarov to discuss with them coordination of state authorities’ work in the economic crisis.
Opening the meeting President Yushchenko pointed to hard economic situation in Ukraine and suggested elaboration of common action plan that would allow state authorities to improve the situation.
Victor Yushchenko emphasized that the issue should not be politicized, adding that “social disturbance and shows may result in loss of respect towards national interests and authorities themselves”. He also urged those who have began their presidential campaigns before July 1, 2009 to stop that and to return to more important thing, namely saving the country from crisis.
President Yushchenko suggested that such meetings were held regularly every Monday. According to his suggestion the decisions would be made based on consensus and “if one of the sides has different position on one of the discussed subject the decision would not pass”.
In the Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine a Strategic Partnership Agreement has been signed by the Ministry of Industrial Policy, the Ministry of Education and Public Council of Technopark Leaders. The document is aimed at joining efforts in the direction of introduction of innovation projects of technological parks on enterprises, subordinate to the Ministry of Industrial Policy.
The signatories have agreed on creating favourable conditions for introducing of innovation projects of technoparks and innovation structures of other kinds, protecting of their interests, facilitating to involvement of enterprises of the Ministry of Industrial Policy to implementation of technological park projects in order to secure innovation development of Ukrainian economics.
It should be noted, with an aim to ensure realization of provisions of the Strategic Partnership Agreement a Coordination centre is to be set up which will gather representatives of the Ministry of Industrial Policy, Education Ministry and Public Council of Technopark Leaders.