Among
the core tasks for the next year are education and health reforms, transparent
privatization, further decentralization, a judicial reform. Prime Minister of
Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced in the Parliament during An Hour of
Questions to the Government in the framework of the report of the Government of
Ukraine on Friday, 11 December.
One
of the goals for 2016 was called an education reform, particularly upgrading
secondary education: "We have made progress in retrofitting higher
education and are in the process of implementation of the law on higher
education. But secondary education is the basis for Ukrainian youth to have the
future".
Another
priority for the following year is changes in the health system: "It
implies the transition from funding bed to funding medical services".
Arseniy
Yatsenyuk also stressed transparent privatization as a crucial issue for 2016.
The
Prime Minister appealed to the MPs "to work efficiently and adopt
necessary laws, including law on privatization". He reminded that several
times the bills on transparent, fair, competitive and efficient privatization
had been considered in the walls of the Ukrainian Parliament, however,
they got no support.
"I
call on the members of Parliament to enable drawing foreign investment, increasing
jobs, holding fair, transparent and competitive privatization and to give a
chance to get rid of political influence in the management of public
enterprises. The way we did it in the NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, in which the
new statute is introduced, new independent directors are working exceptionally
in the interests of the state-owned company, but not for benefit of
politicians", stressed Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
By
the end of year it is vital to adopt a law of Ukraine on the State Budget and a
tax reform and to endorse all necessary legislation, "to ensure 2016 to
become the year of economic prosperity": "I appeal to the members of
the Ukrainian Parliament to embark on a constructive discussion and to adopt
these bills by the end of year".
He
accentuated it is necessary to introduce new tax rules and new tax policy the
following year.
The
Prime Minister also stressed the need to continue the decentralization process.
He recalled that previous year there had been held budget decentralization,
"which provided the opportunity for local communities to increase their
revenues": "Now local communities and local authorities have about
UAH 20 billion on the accounts in the State Treasury".
"We
have achieved a lot in decentralization by devolution of functions to register
business activity directly to the local authorities. This gives an estimated 1
billion of revenues for local communities. And the most important - it gives
the opportunity for the citizens to get public services at administrative
service centers without bribes, queues, corruption", stressed Arseniy
Yatsenyuk.
He
reminded the Agreement on free trade area with the European Union would come
into force the next year.
In
addition, Arseniy Yatsenyuk noted that on 15 December there was due the report
of the European Union mission on visa liberalization between Ukraine and the
EU. He reminded that Parliament’s members had had "hard work and difficult
discussions on package of visa-free laws": "But despite the tense
atmosphere we could have voted for these laws. And I can declare that Ukraine
has fulfilled all criteria necessary for introduction of the visa-free
regime".
"Ukraine
deserves to have borders of the European Union opened for Ukraine, as also the
EU does. The borders will be opened for Ukrainian citizens", he
highlighted.
Arseniy
Yatsenyuk views among the main tasks the completion of the judicial reform in
Ukraine.
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