
PM: Our objective is to launch maximum change in Ukraine
The
priorities determined in the Budget for 2017 by the Government will allow us to
undertake a comprehensive modernization in the country and to develop the
national economy. Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr
Groysman announced on air of the ICTV channel on
Monday.
“We have fixed
the topmost objectives enabling to launch overall modernization in the country
and to develop the national economy”, said the Head of Government referring to
the Budget for 2017. “Our objective is to launch maximum change in Ukraine.”
Namely, in
2017 in Ukraine there will be triggered a process of large-scale construction
of roads, thus enabling to trigger development of the national economy and to create
thousands of new jobs in related areas.
The budget
for the next year contains programmes to support the Ukrainian
village, in particular the areas of livestock breeding, horticulture, berries
farming, agricultural engineering.
Among the
priorities for 2017 are funding and support for Ukrainian troops,
infrastructure, energy efficiency, restoring of production of Ukrainian gas.
Volodymyr
Groysman stressed that the plans for 2017 comprise
preserving of decentralization. According to him, presently local budgets have
sufficient resource to maintain sustainable development of inhabited localities.
Speaking about
stimulating economic development, the Prime Minister emphasized the need to create
proper conditions for crediting a real sector of the economy. Moreover,
according to him, it is vital to abandon a practice of being a mere supplier of
raw materials for the economies of other countries, but to create added value
and new production facilities in Ukraine.
He reminded
that the Government had established National Industry Development Committee,
Council for Export Promotion that were designed to
facilitate the manufacture of Ukrainian goods and their promotion in the world
markets.
Volodymyr
Groysman noted that Ukraine has a great industrial
potential, in particular in aircraft construction, carriage building.
Among other
incentives for the development of the economy is an effective privatization of
state-owned enterprises, he added.
“The Government
is performing all the objectives very professionally and efficiently, and most
importantly, openly and publicly, to full extent”, assured the Prime Minister.
The Government, me as Prime Minister have steadfast adherence to the goals and
will move forward to ensure you feel stability, see that the situation in the
country is changing and the country is being restored and repaired".