Government to create single database of migrants

The Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk has commissioned to immediately create a single database of migrants, specifically containing information about temporary accommodation and work for them. The Head of Government said at the session of the Cabinet of Ministers on Wednesday, June 11.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk addressed the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Vitalii Yarema and Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Regional Development, Building, Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine Volodymyr Hroysman: “All we have been doing recently was temporary accommodation for a month, two or three, in particular they were migrants from Crimean AR. Now the situation shows that this question cannot be solved in the short term. We need to approve a long-term strategy”.   

The Head of Government instructed to immediately design a single database: “…enabling the people to obtain information about the region he can have temporary housing, about the region where he has an opportunity for his children to attend school, the region where he can have an opportunity to employ and what kind of work”.

Moreover, he commissioned Volodymyr Hroysman to appeal with this question to the Association of Ukrainian Cities, Association of Small Towns: “We need help of municipalities. As when we speak about power decentralization, then decentralization envisages not just obtaining certain authorities, decentralization envisages obtaining responsibility”.

“Creating a single database, disclosing information concerning every separate region and attracting local municipalities to provide assistance to the migrants,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk summed up the goals.

The Head of Government stressed a great number of people started leaving Donetsk and Luhansk, so he addressed the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Vitalii Yarema to assume personal control of this matter.