18 May 2014, 21:12
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov is sure that the situation in the economy will soon get better. In an interview in the TV programme “TSN. Week” on Sunday he claimed that today the National Bank “has the resources, increasing gold and forex reserves, which will help to completely stabilize hryvnia”.
“We speak about prospects of improving the economy, about the fact that we shall transfer to the European standards. We have signed the Association Agreement with the EU, and we have an opportunity to enter new European markets”, he said.
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada claimed the government “has announced a war against corruption”, noting that this dangerous phenomenon is one of the main problems not only for Ukraine but for the other countries too. In his words, it is impossible to build an efficient economy without fighting corruption”.
He informed that for the last two months the Parliament adopted more anti-corruption laws than for the whole history of Ukrainian parliamentarism, particularly having opened at the legislative level an access to any information connected with the budget funds.
The package of laws on liberalization of visa regime, one of them being the law on fighting corruption, has been adopted, and the law on forming the Anti-corruption bureau is being elaborated now.