KHARKIV - Financial and technical assistance of the United States to Ukraine depends on Kyiv's success in the fight against corruption, United States Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt has said.
In all matters of financial and technical assistance to Ukraine, the key to which the assistance will be at the next stage of work in this area is the success achieved during the previous stages. The greater the success in the fight against corruption, the better American partners will be ready to invest in Ukraine, Pyatt told reporters in Kharkiv on Friday.
In his words, Americans like winners and the Ukrainian people is currently the winner. But it is like riding a bike, if one does not maintain speed when moving forward they fall, he said. So, keep pedaling, and the United States will help, he added.
According to Pyatt, the United States considers the police reform a key to ensuring that the Revolution of Dignity was not in vain.
The United States will work with the Interior Ministry on the creation of special units modeled on the American SWAT, he said.
The United States’ ambassador also promised that his country will help to give impetus to the reform of the prosecution system. Because the project of the new police will be successful only if the spirit of justice and the rule of law is are established throughout the court system and the prosecution system, the diplomat said.
According to him, the United States’ assistance in preparing KORDA (the Ukrainian analogue of the American SWAT) will be based on the same principles as in the preparation of the new patrol police.The ambassador also noted that the United States’ government had already provided $15 million for the reform of the Ukrainian police system, but this was only beginning.
