Ukraine’s Economic Development and Trade Ministry has informed representatives of the U.S. Department of the Treasury about the state-run enterprises reform, the ministry has said on Twitter.
“We are conducting the complete stocktaking of all state-run enterprises in Ukraine. The goal of the big stocktaking is to determine what enterprises are strategic and what can be privatized,” the ministry said, referring to First Deputy Minister Yulia Kovaliv.
According to the report, Deputy Director, International Monetary Policy Office, U.S. Treasury Department, Clay Berry said that the reform of state-run enterprises is one of the challenges Ukraine faces now.
Earlier Kovaliv said that after a stocktaking some 300 enterprises have been revealed that were not in the records. The total number of state-run enterprises grew to 3,800.
Head of Verkhovna Rada committee for industrial policy and entrepreneurship Viktor Halasiuk said on Facebook that meeting with high-ranking officials of the U.S. Department of the Treasury were held in parliament: development of the economy, tax reform, cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and international technical assistance were discussed.
