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Poroshenko: The authorities should be as close to people as possible
12.06.2015 17:04 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of today, the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko took part in the first meeting of the
Ukrainian Regional Development Council, President Petro Poroshenko Press Office reports.
As to the report, while speaking at the meeting, Poroshenko emphasized that the Council should become a platform for making important and efficient decisions in the sphere of the implementation of regional policy and decentralization reform.
Reportedly, the President also underlined the need for reducing the distance between the authorities and people in the process of regional reform.
«The key position of the authorities’ efficiency is that the authorities must be as close to people as possible,» Poroshenko said noting that it was the main purpose of power decentralization concept initiated by him within his election campaign.
«I am going to take decisive steps in order to conduct constitutional amendments and fully increase the efficiency of the authorities with the support of the Government and Parliament,» the President said.
Also, the President described the essence of decentralization reform: «The State delegates its powers to the local government at the level, which will fulfill these powers to the maximum extent».
The Head of State emphasized: «Center will never again solve local problems or tell territories how they should develop».
As to him, the level of communities’ independence will be as high as never before in the history of Ukraine.
«But it doesn’t mean weakening of the central authorities,» Poroshenko stressed.
«Ukraine was, is and will remain a unitary State. The level of powers of the Center in the regions must be pretty high. I have no doubt about that. Coordination, control and supervision must be increased at the level of districts. There will be no right to intervene in social and economic activity of local government, but there will also be no right to violate the Constitution and the laws of Ukraine. Responsibility will come immediately,» the President said.
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