Some state enterprises ask Ukraine's leadership to prevent them from joining Olympiysky NSC
Kyiv, February 17 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The management of state enterprises Sport Hotel, Atlet Research and Sports Base, Kryzhynka Ice Rink, and Tennis Courts (all based in Kyiv), has asked the country's authorities to prevent the suspension of their activities by reorganizing and joining them to the Olympiysky National Sports Complex state enterprise.
"Today, we have drafted a collective address to the prime minister, [Parliament Vice Speaker Mykola] Tomenko and [the head of the parliamentary committee for family, youth policy, sport and tourism, Pavlo] Kostenko… With the goal of preventing the illegal reorganization, and then the illegal privatization of our enterprises, [and] we are asking for government agencies to be prevented from passing documents that contradict the law. We hope they will consider [our appeal] and take a sober-minded decision as soon as possible," a lawyer working for Sport Hotel, Olena Honcharova, said at a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine news agency on Tuesday.
According to the appeal made available to the agency, the Family, Youth and Sports Ministry, which made another, allegedly illegal attempt to suspend the activities of the abovementioned enterprises, drafted in early February 2009 a government resolution on their reorganization and submitted it for approval by the State Property Fund, the Economy Ministry, the Finance Ministry, and the Economy Ministry.
"We draw your attention to the fact that all of the abovementioned state enterprises have been included in a list of facilities not liable to privatization, in accordance with Verkhovna Rada law No. 847-XIV of July 7, 1999," reads the document.
The authors of the appeal said that the Sports Ministry had explained its intentions by the need to improve the preparation of the Olympiysky National Sports Complex state enterprise for the Euro 2012 European Football Championship.
Honcharova said that this kind of merger is currently inexpedient, because it would complicate the economic activity of the enterprises, bring a simultaneous rise in expenditures from the state budget and a fall in budget revenues, as well as cause job dismissals at these enterprises.
"The income of our enterprises will be spent on meeting the liabilities of the Olympiysky National Sports Complex to its creditors. This move by the ministry is by no means linked to the organization of Euro 2012," she said.