Ukrainian government is to consider Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's orders given as a result of a meeting with representatives of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine and the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on Wednesday.
“These orders will now go to the Cabinet of Ministers, and I warned [Ukrainian Premier Mykola] Azarov that they should consider all this at the government’s meeting tomorrow,” the president’s press service quoted Yanukovych as saying on Tuesday.
“We will analyze the state of affairs in almost all areas and in all sectors which are currently facing the greatest problem. If you look at the decline in production, it is mostly observed in the export-oriented sectors of the economy,” the president said.
According to Yanukovych, the problems in the economy are caused not only by the global economic crisis, but also by poor management by the officials of the Economic Development and Trade Ministry.
“The program of the revitalization of the economy hasn’t been started. Consequently, no measures have been provided, that would mitigate the negative consequences,” he said.
The president also criticized the activities of the Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Ministry. “The prepared programs, which should have been launched already, and we need them to start the work in housing construction, are not running,” the president said.
“The Industrial Policy Ministry unfortunately has not started to work. I don’t know what the reasons are – human or organizational – but at present it does not work,” Yanukovych said.
According to the press service, during the Tuesday meeting, Head of the Trade Union of Workers of Chemical and Petrochemical Industries Vasyl Moisiuk complained that the union’s representatives were unable to meet with the industrial policy minister.
Head of the Supervisory Board of JSC Kriukov Car Building Works (KCBW, Poltava region) Volodymyr Prykhodko said that the government should help the manufacturer of railway transport means in addressing the issue of import of products from Russia.
