Ukraine could emerge from crisis by increasing domestic demand, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said.
"Amid the global crisis that has swept across Europe and that is already creating risks even for the new centers of growth, such as China, it is manufacturing and the domestic market that will help Ukraine emerge from this crisis with minimal cost," according to Yanukovych's opening speech, which was prepared for a final press conference that was to be held on Wednesday, but was postponed because of the situation in the Verkhovna Rada.
"We should make up for what we lose on the foreign markets, in these difficult circumstances, on the domestic market. And there's more than enough work here - the country's infrastructure, housing and utilities sector and transport industry require a lot of modernization," the president said.
"It is domestic demand and stimulating government policy that should, as they say, 'load' our industry with new orders," reads the opening speech.
