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Regions Party leader and Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov will be engaged in the election campaign until the end of parliamentary elections, President Viktor Yanukovych has said.

At a meeting of the Committee on Economic Reforms on Wednesday, the head of state instructed Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Serhiy Arbuzov and Azarov to draw up a program for lending to the real sector of the economy.

“I hope that Serhiy Hennadiyovych [Arbuzov], along with Ukrainian banks, will finally work out and propose a program for the development of our country. I’m waiting for that from you and Prime Minister Azarov, who will be engaged in the election campaign until its end,” Yanukovych said.

Azarov has a working meeting to Crimea scheduled for Thursday. He regularly takes vacation days for election campaigning.

Yanukovych is the honorary chairman of the Regions Party. The parliamentary elections in Ukraine are scheduled for October 28.