Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has promised that social and economic reforms in Ukraine will continue though "the changes are not as rapid as one would like them to be."
Yanukovych made the promise at a meeting in Ukraine’s autonomous region of Crimea with the Club of Editors in Chief of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Baltic Countries and Georgia, the president’s office said in a statement.
The statement cited Yanukovych as mentioning that in 2010, “the Ukrainian government announced the start of the implementation of an ‘ambitious program’ of modernization and economic reforms that was closely linked to the reforming of the social sphere.”
“I am ready to admit that the changes are not as rapid as one would like them to be, and we realize that that there are various subjective factors behind this, but on the whole the dynamics are positive,” Yanukovych said. “There is no doubt that we will continue and further deepen these reforms.”
“The head of state is convinced,” the statement said, “that it is reforms in various spheres of life of the country that have provided real opportunities to improve the economic situation in Ukraine and to use this improvement as the basis for social reforms.”
