Prime Minister of
Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko
urges the politicians to unite efforts to overcome the global financial crisis.
The Head of Government said today at a meeting with heads of regional
councils, Government portal reported.
Yulia Tymoshenko
has denied claims that in the system of global financial crisis Ukraine is in
the worst condition, “According to its indices, Ukraine is in the centre of
crisis phenomena, as against countries of the world”.
Thus, according to Yulia Tymoshenko, the industrial production
rates in January 2009 against December 2008 in Kazakhstan totaled minus 10.4%, Russia
– minus 19.9%, Ukraine – minus 16.1%; the processing industry: Kazakhstan –
minus 21.6%, Russia – minus 32.7%, Ukraine – minus – 22.4%. Yulia
Tymoshenko also noted that among other countries
Ukraine is also in the middle according to the inflation processes: in Russia
the January 2009 inflation against December 2008 totaled 2.4%, in Belarus –
4.1%, in Ukraine – 2.9%.
The Prime Minister
pointed out, the positive is the fact that when by the end of 2008 the majority
of countries faced recession, Ukraine had a positive GDP rate in 2008 – 2.1%.
The Prime Minister is
confident that the system of fighting the crisis is hampered by the fact that
Ukraine is damped by the political disagreements and unstable events. “I would
like that against these challenges we had courage not to hysterically criticize
each other, not to rejoice in the lobby that somebody is in power and somebody
is in opposition, we should understand that Ukraine will outlive this
challenging time only conjointly,” Yulia Tymoshenko stressed.
