[Ohio UZO News] Nasha Ukraina Newsletter

[Andrew J. Futey]

Under the present situation of world financial crises state bodies are to cooperate on a special order, the President considers 

On November 11 President of Ukraine and Honorary President of Our Ukraine Party Victor Yushchenko hold a consultative meeting on minimizing negative impact of world financial crisis on social-economic situation in Ukraine and implementing of 2008 State Budget. The President stressed that he convened this meeting to ensure that State Tax Administration, Customs Service and Treasury agreed on a special order of cooperation. At the same time the main issues in proper implementation of 2008, according to the President, are large budgetary deficit and insufficient clearance of VAT. In this context he stressed concerns that budgetary deficit may outgrow that designated by the Government earlier. The need to finance deficit in Pensions Fund out of state budget, according to him, may become one of causes to that. Therefore Victor Yushchenko urged to balancing budgetary incomes and expenses in that field. Pointing to problems in clearance of VAT debts President suggested establishing a temporary coordinative board that would monitor the process and report on any issues and suspicious activity in that field. 

Our Ukraine party: dismissal of the speaker of Ukrainian parliament does not contribute to settlement of political crisis in the country 

Dismissal of the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine leads to deepening of the political and economic crisis. Representatives of Our Ukraine party consider that the head of parliament has still a number of functions to fulfil, which are extremely important under current political and economic circumstances. As Chairman of Our Ukraine faction Vyacheslav Kyrylenko stressed that absence of the parliament's chairman makes it impossible to pass submitted social anti-crisis draft laws. He underlined that Our Ukraine does not support Arseniy Yatsenyuk's dismissal and considers it as an attempt to destabilize the situation in the parliament once again. 

As Volodymyr Vyazivskyi, Our Ukraine MP, also told, the parliament must urgently consider and pass the state budget of Ukraine for 2009 as well as other legal acts necessary to settle political and economic crisis. But any legal acts cannot come into affect without 

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signature of the chairman of the parliament. Therefore, dismissal of A.Yatseniuk will only postpone adoption of any decision and thus deepen the crisis in Ukraine, the MP said. 

The issue of the early parliament election is not as of today on top of Ukraine's political agenda 

With a view of world financial crisis any format of parliamentary coalition is acceptable today, declared representatives of President of Ukraine secretariat last week. The snap poll will take place as soon as the economic situation improves, declared a source in office of the Head of Ukrainian state. 

At the same time, the positive outcome of voting on the President's anti-crisis legislation in the Verkhovna Rada has indicated there are chances for political forces to unite in the face of the economic crisis. Today any format of parliamentary majority is acceptable - either a broad democratic coalition, or a coalition of 300 and more votes. Economic challenges demand high-quality and urgent anti-crisis decisions from parliament, the source in office of the President pointed out, noting that the forces supported the President's anti-crisis legislation, may be regarded as partners in a new coalition. 

Our Ukraine develops close cooperation with Sweden and Poland 

Our Ukraine Party has intensified cooperation with its foreign partners. Recently a number of actions and events took place in this respect, particularly with Swedish and Polish partners of Our Ukraine. On November 11-13, 2008, 22 representatives of different regional organizations of Our Ukraine Party participated in the conference Academy for Local Decision Makers in Sollentuna (Sweden) in the framework of cooperation between Our Ukraine and Swedish Party Moderaterna. 

The conference was supported by the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation. 

Swedish counterparts shared with Our Ukraine members their experience in development of regional self-governance based on examples of Sollentuna and Upplands Väsby regions. A special attention was paid to examination of structures of local municipalities, educational system at the regional level etc. Representatives of the Moderate party also informed about recent political and social campaigns of Moderaterna Party. All the topics were actively discussed by Ukrainian and Swedish young political activists. Participants of the conference concluded that such joint activities strengthen ties between Ukrainian and Swedish societies and contribute to European integration of Ukraine. 

On November 8, 2008, the second Ukrainian - Polish literature conference took place in Ukrainian city of Dubno. Our Ukraine regional organisation was among institutions, which prepared the event. The event was focused on different pages of Ukrainian - Polish cooperation during the last centuries in the field of culture and literature. Such events help for representatives of civil societies of both countries better understand each other and their common past as well as common European future.
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