The Ukrainian authorities hope that national and foreign investors will be involved in conducting reform in the country, President Viktor Yanukovych has said.
"It is very important to feel that a barometer, in the person of businessmen, will tell us whether the wind is blowing in the right direction, or not," he said at the opening of a plenary meeting of the council of domestic and foreign investors under the Ukrainian president in Kyiv on Thursday.
"Are [government and business] now mutually interested in partnership, or not? Or, perhaps, we should improve this partnership," he added.
Yanukovych called on investors to invest in Ukraine and added that mistakes could be made during reform, but the government was prepared to correct them.
The president asked the meeting participants whether they considered the conditions for attracting investment in Ukraine to be acceptable.
"What is the weather like in Ukraine, in your opinion? Is it currently creating the conditions for the motivation of doing business? Does it give you the emotions that would have inspired you to invest in Ukraine? And what would you like to do so that the government at all levels helps improve the level of doing business?" he asked.
