President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko had a meeting with U.S. Secretary
of Commerce Penny Pritzker. Ms. Pritzker emphasized that the U.S. would continue
supporting reforms in Ukraine. “USA supports and believes in Ukraine today and
in the future,” Ms. Pritzker said.
The President noted the U.S. support in macro-financial and
macro-economic spheres – both in bilateral regime through the allocation of
bilateral guarantees and multilateral regime through the support in
international financial organizations. The President informed on the decision
of the U.S. Government to allocate the third tranche of loan guarantees in the
amount of greater than USD 1 billion. “It is the position of a true friend and
partner,” Petro Poroshenko emphasized.
“The assistance of our strategic partners, our friends from the United
States is extremely important for us,” the President said in his press
statement following the negotiations. “We have an efficient interaction with
our American partners today,” the President stressed noting political support
for Ukraine from the U.S. President, his Administration, the U.S. Government,
Congress and people.
In the course of the negotiations, we’ve agreed to coordinate actions on
the creation of favorable investment climate. The President informed on
detailed conversation with U.S. business leaders who have a huge experience of
working in the Ukrainian market and had an opportunity to advise on the further
steps on reforms.
“We are going to further coordinate our actions on decisive struggle
against corruption. The establishment of special anti-corruption bureau,
transparent appointment of anti-corruption prosecutor, reload of judicial power
will let us demonstrate decisive intention to fight against corruption,” Petro
Poroshenko noted.
The President informed the delegation on the plan to carry our
transparent privatization. “I was pleased to hear that American investors are
interested in raising the level of American investment in the Ukrainian
economy,” he said.
“We’ve coordinated the results of business forum held in July with
participation of Ms. Pritzker and more than 150 investors interested in
investing in Ukraine,” the Head of State informed.
“The level of our cooperation is high and can be even higher,” the
President added.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker noted significant changes in
the country since her last visit that took place in autumn 2014. She
particularly mentioned reforms in energy sphere, control over the capital
market, struggle against corruption and judicial reform. “However, there is
much to be done,” she said.
“USA, our allies and international financial institutions are willing to
support your efforts on improving the investment climate, integration of
Ukraine in the world economy and transition to self-sustaining growth,” Ms.
Pritzker emphasized.
She informed that the U.S. President in cooperation with the U.S.
Congress intended to provide the third loan guarantees in the amount of USD 1
billion in the coming months. According to her, the parties discussed the ways
to use the above mentioned funds efficiently in order to implement reforms.
The U.S. Secretary of Commerce called her visit to Ukraine an example of
commercial diplomacy. The U.S. delegation included business representatives of
DuPont, Citibank, Westinghouse, NCH Capital, Honeywell, Cargill.
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