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Ukrainian Government to establish a trade representative office in countries with promising markets
10.07.2014 17:41 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
The Ukrainian Government will establish an office of the trade representative in countries with markets promising for the Ukrainian producers, Government Portal says referring to the Ukrainian PM Arseniy Yatseniuk report on the Third All-Ukrainian Agricultural Forum on Thursday, July 10.
«Office of the Ukrainian Trade Representative is one of the key tools to promote the economic interests of Ukraine abroad,» underlined Yatseniuk.
Arseniy Yatseniuk has noted that over the past six months, the volume of Ukrainian agricultural products trade to Russia has declined by one-third: «This should have been expected. Therefore, it is clear that we need to move into new markets.»
He reminded that the EU has opened its market for Ukrainian goods, «Just do not think that you will be greeted with applause there. This is a global competition, and one of the strictest in the agricultural market around the world.»
Ukrainian farmers, the PM emphasized, should switch from raw commodities trade to finished product: «If we keep just gathering grain and selling it, that means we will always lose. And if we think differently and not just collect and sell grain, but recycle it and become a supplier of protein, then we shall be in the game.»
Besides, Arseniy Yatseniuk has also informed that within the next year the Government is to recover a compensation program of interest rates on loans for the agro-industrial complex: «This is a real effective least-corrupt and transparent mechanism».
The Prime Minister appealed to the representatives of the agricultural sector to provide the Government with their vision of agriculture development, encouraged to join to work and offer concrete solutions: "Only concrete steps. Just to write down to give 100 billion funding, the state will never give it. In the current situation, when we have barely avoided bankruptcy, when we hardly find funds in order to pay pensions and salaries - there is nowhere to finance billions of hryvnias. If we possess, we’ll give. In order to achieve this, we will have to work together. "
«You are creating jobs in Ukraine, bringing currency into the country. You are developing the economy, not the Government,» emphasized Yatseniuk.
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