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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has ordered that a public information campaign on the content and aims of pension reform in Ukraine be carried out, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.

"First of all, the order concerned the organization of explanatory work regarding pension reform. The president believes, and this is true, that our people in the main are not acquainted with the essence of the pension reforms, which are aimed at raising pensions, differentiating them and making each person starting from their first working day think about what kind of pension they will have after they retire due to their state of health or age," the premier said after a meeting with the head of state.

Azarov noted that the pension reform bill has quite many positive aspects, the presidential press service reported. According to him, the government cannot manage without the reform, but carrying it out will be a matter of time.

"For twenty years people lived without the reform, and we can still live [as we did]. But our people do not want to live in such a way. People fairly demand that the government improve pension provision. That’s why the pension reform is being carried out for the sake of people, so as to improve their pension provision, but not worsen it," the premier said.
For this reason, the Cabinet of Ministers by order of the head of state will conduct mass explanatory work on pension reform for the public, Azarov said