Yanukovych names priority tasks for 2013, warns about personal responsibility for neglecting them
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said that the introduction of a new economic growth model and improvement of social standards will be Ukraine's priority tasks in 2013.
"Local authorities failed to establish administrative discipline. This resulted into reduction of effectiveness of the state policy and discrediting of the reform policy. That's why I will demand personal responsibility for each item of the plan for the next year and each budget index," the head of state said at a meeting of the Council of Regions in Kyiv on Tuesday.
"The results of the implementation of the previous plan showed that controls over it should be strengthened… We are introducing a new verification system and we again introduced the position of the minister of the Cabinet of Ministers, who will organize this work together with the prime minister and the first vice premier. This system has to start operating," he said.
The president recalled that the plan for 2012 was not fulfilled in full.
"Analysis of reasons [for the failure] in all directions is a topic for a separate very serious discussion," Yanukovych said.
While speaking about priority tasks for the next year, Yanukovych said that the real sector and the home market should be developed as a basis for the introduction of a new economic growth model. In particular, he said that the policy of import substitution should be developed and mechanisms of state-private partnership should be introduced actively.
"I am demanding the government to apply efforts to elimination of unfair competition," Yanukovych said.
According to him, energy saving is an important component of the import substitution strategy.
The head of state added that improvement of social standards is another priority task for 2013.
"The second task is gradual implementation of social fairness policy. I am stressing that we should keep improving social standards," the president said.