U.S. Secretary of Commerce Pritzker says Ukraine needs to fight corruption, reform judicial system
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker says it is important that Ukraine needs to fight corruption and reform its judicial system.
"And the progress that the IMF [the International Monetary Fund] and the U.S. government is promoting tracks with what our private-sector leaders have been emphasizing, and that was repeated in our conversations today with the president [of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko], which is a frank discussion about everything from energy reform, to capital controls, to taxation, to the most important issue, which is to address corruption and judicial reform," Pritzker said at a meeting with Poroshenko in Kyiv on Monday.
In her words, the United States believes in Ukraine and is supporting Ukraine as "it goes through this very challenging period of repositioning itself to be part of the world economy, and we stand with them, and have done so to date and will do so in the future."
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