The Ukrainian government is launching a wide-scale program to stabilize the situation in eastern regions of the country, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has said.
“We are selecting priority issues. Two priorities are (as follows):
for the military – order and absence of provocations; for the civilian
authorities – first a calm life, and dynamics afterwards. These dynamics
will allow the government to provide you with additional
possibilities,” Avakov said at a meeting on the restoration of liberated
areas in Sloviansk on Tuesday.
According to him, government program on stabilization of the
situation in Donbas doesn’t foresee that the oblast will “sponge on”
current conditions.
“We have a special order from the president of Ukraine, according to
which the government begins a wide-scale program to stabilize the
situation in Donbas. It won’t be a program for Donbas to sponge on the
situation. It will be a program for Donbas to work, and we will help
you. There you have it, – (our) philosophy,” Avakov said.
He also urged the city authorities to establish priority goals within
the realization of government course of actions (providing health care,
normal education, direct social functions and the functioning of key
state mechanisms).
