Prime Minister Mykola Azarov opened the morning session of the Cabinet of Ministers with a statement that the opposition and the protesters in Ukraine had lost their common sense and the last bits of their conscience. He said that the protesters at Maidan ignore “the real things that the majority of people are involved in.”
“The activities of the opposition and certain extremist forces, which act in disguise, hinder the normal functioning of society,” the Prime Minister said.
He thinks that the “protests and provocations of the opposition” inflict serious material damage. The PM is concerned about the “collapse of transport” and inability to live near Independence Square, as well as “unsanitary conditions” on EuroMaidan.
“Yesterday, the opposition legislators, who repeatedly and absolutely illegally interfered in the activity of the local authorities, disrupted the Kyiv City Council session” Azarov raged. He repeated that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine had provided UAH 130mn subsidy to Kyiv local authorities in order to pay wages to state employees, but that the Kyiv City Council could not distribute it.
Moreover, Azarov said, “a number of city councils in the western regions of the country are not fulfilling their functions”. In his view, “they also threaten state employees that they will not get their wages, social benefits and housing compensations in time. We can see that the opposition and part of society manipulated by them lost not only their common sense, but also the last bits of their conscience. I want to call on these people to calm down on the eve of the New Year holidays,” Azarov appealed.
Original in Ukrainian on the Ukrainska Pravda website:http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2013/12/25/7008335/
