Volodymyr Groysman: Government's task is to create sustainable system of attracting investment in Ukraine
The Government
will make efforts to reduce regulation, overcome abuse by regulatory
authorities, ensure system stability and rule of law
in order to create favorable conditions for attracting investment into Ukraine.
Prime
Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman
stated during the opening of the Sweden-Ukrainian business forum in Kyiv on Monday,
13 June.
"Our task is
to generate a reasonable regulation, prevent any abuse of supervisory
authorities, create such a stable system so that you
could quite easily anticipate its investments in the Ukrainian economy. Business
climate should be comfortable, despite the origin of investment," said Volodymyr Groysman, referring to
businesses.
The Prime
Minister informed that to this end the Government will soon create an investment
support agency.
According to him,
the Government’s home task is to create favorable simple conditions so that
investors can do their business easily. Volodymyr
Groysman stressed that the Ukrainian Government's priorities are deregulation and
ensuring investors with free access to Ukraine.
Amidst the most
promising areas in Ukraine that can "bring success to those who invest and
for our country", according to him, are the energy industry, IT sector and
the agricultural complex.
The Prime
Minister pointed out that the rule of law and the justice system change is the key
to investment protection. In
this context, he recalled that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine had adopted constitutional amendments in
the judicial sector. This
will reboot the system and enable it to attract new honest professionals.