Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree ordering the creation of a National Council of Reforms that will act as a special consultation agency dealing with issue of implementation of a single state policy of reforms in Ukraine. The council will be affiliated to the president.
The corresponding decree was posted on president’s website.
According to the document, Ukrainian president will head the council
that can include Chairman of the parliament, Prime Minister, other
members of the government, Head of the National Bank of Ukraine,
chairmen of parliamentary committees and public representatives upon
their consent.
Besides, Poroshenko ordered to create a conciliatory council of
reforms to act as a conciliatory agency affiliated to the president. The
main goal of the council is to propose reforms in the country based on
the best international experience and to facilitate implementation of
reforms.
In addition, an executive committee will be created to act as a
subsidiary agency affiliated to the president with the main goal to
prepare proposals regarding strategic reforms planning and monitor their
realization. With the same decree Poroshenko appointed Deputy Head of
Presidential Administration Dmytro Shymkiv Director of the executive
committee of reforms.
President suggested that leadership of Verkhovna Rada, government and
the National Bank of Ukraine hand in the lists of candidates for
executive committee’s personnel within a week.
In addition, within three months after approving its personnel, the
executive committee of reforms must prepare a project of strategy of
Ukraine’s stable development for the period until 2020 that will be
considered by the National Council of Reforms. The project is to
establish strategic interests of the state in legal, economical, social,
scientific-technological, ecological, informational and other sectors.
The decree comes into effect on the day it’s made public.
