Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov is dissatisfied with the fulfillment of the national action plan in 2012.
“The government has drawn up a detailed report on the implementation of each item of the national plan for 2012 and sent it to the head of state. Many important planned goals were not achieved. We cannot be satisfied with the level of implementation, and the president has already said this,” Azarov said at a meeting of the Economic Reform Committee under the President of Ukraine on Thursday.
According to the premier, the key task for all new ministers is to analyze the reasons for the failure to fulfill the action plan and eliminate them as soon as possible.
Azarov also said 2012 had been a very difficult year for Ukraine.
“The country’s economic development indices were lower than we expected. However, we prevented the cataclysms that were forecast by the so-called experts, and we ended the year with positive results,” he said.
The premier also said that retail trade inside the country grew by 16%, average nominal wages increased by 15.4%, and deflation was 0.2%.
