Arseniy Yatsenyuk urged MPs to adopt a bill on heat supply and housing, enabling to obtain international assistance worth USD 800 million
Prime Minister of
Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk appealed to members of the Parliament of Ukraine at
today's session to adopt bill No. 2670 on improvement of legislation in heat
supply and housing sphere, which will enable to obtain USD 500 million from the
World Bank and USD 300 million as a macro-financial assistance from the
government of Japan. He announced during An Hour of Questions to the Government
in the Verkhovna Rada on Friday, April 24.
On behalf of the
Cabinet of Ministers the Prime Minister expressed gratitude for the adoption by
the coalition of parliamentary factions of a number of government bills.
At the same time he
reminded that yesterday's session of the Verkhovna Rada resulted into a failure
to approve bill No. 2670 – on improvement of legislation in heat supply,
housing and communal services sphere.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk urged
MPs to adopt the bill at today's meeting: "Today is the last day we have an
opportunity to receive $ 500 million from the World Bank and $ 300 million as a
macro-financial assistance from Japan - it is crucial."
"Unfortunately,
this law hasn’t been voted for three times by Parliament. Failure to vote for
this bill means minus 800 million dollars to the Ukrainian economy to create new
jobs. I call on Parliament’s members to reconsider this issue and vote for this
bill efficiently," - said the Head of Government.