Prime Minister of
Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk has instructed the Ministry of Finance
of Ukraine, the Ministry of Information Policy and the Ministry of Social
Policy to ensure repayment of a UAH5 million debt of the ATR channel to the
owner of the satellite. A meeting of the Government discussed this issue on
Thursday, March 10.
At the meeting of
the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Minister of Information Policy Yurii Stets
has recalled that ten days ago the Crimean Tatar television channel ATR was in
a situation that jeopardized its future satellite broadcasting due to the debts
to the Swedish company, the owner of the satellite. The Minister informed that
on behalf of Arseniy Yatsenyuk he contacted the representatives
of this company.
During the talks,
according to Yurii Stets, the Government of Ukraine guaranteed to
solve this problem within two weeks, and the Swedish company, in its turn, gave
a guarantee that it would not stop broadcasting the ATR channel until the
settlement of this debt. In addition, we managed to agree on debt
restructuring: "For now we can say that the amount of UAH10 million will
be at least halved."
Arseniy Yatsenyuk has
recalled that the 2016 state budget foresees UAH 60 million to finance the Mejlis of
the Crimean Tatar People.
The Prime Minister
has instructed the Ministry of Finance together with the Ministry of
Information Policy and the Ministry of Social Policy to ensure payment of a
UAH5 million debt of ATR TV to the owner of the satellite.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk has
appealed to Yurii Stets to finalize this issue, to provide a UAH 5
million write-off in order to guarantee the channel’s further broadcasting.
The Head of
Government has pointed out that we need to help our Crimean Tatar people, who
is under constant pressure of the Russian regime and need help, in order to
ensure broadcasting of the ATR channel that provides accurate information about
our #Crimean_Tatar brothers.
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