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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said that a special executive agency for sports issues should be created in Ukraine.

“I know that if organizational and management issues are not settled,
it will be very difficult to change the situation and move it from the
dead point. The sphere of physical culture and sports has many branches,
it has its own specifics, and it’s difficult to compare it to any other
sphere. We should think together about the creation of a special
executive agency for sports-related issues,” Yanukovych said during the
Third Sports Congress of Ukraine in Kyiv on Thursday.

He also proposed to develop sponsorship in sports and create
favorable conditions for involving Ukrainians in physical culture and
sports.

“I think that this activity [sponsorship] should be developed,
motivated, and civilized rules should be created for it. We should pass a
special law on the sponsorship of sports. I would like to address the
officials of all levels that are present here, the local governments
should make more efforts to create favorable conditions so that our
citizens can get exercise and practice sports,” he said.

The president also noted that special attention should be paid to
sports schools for children, as well as the construction of sports
facilities.