Regions Party leader Viktor Yanukovych has criticized the policies followed by the current government of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the country's shipbuilding industry.
“Ukraine’s shipbuilding can yet be rescued. However, with such an
approach that has been used in the last five years, the state has
little time to [save the industry],” he told reporters in Mykolaiv on
Saturday, while attending the 61 Communards Shipyard.
Yanukovych said that crisis in this sector had been triggered by the
government’s refusal to ensure that the state budget for 2009 foresees
funds for the creation of the Mykolaiv special economic zone.
“This practically served as the disruption of investment projects
and, in fact, the halt of the entire shipbuilding sector in Ukraine,”
he said.
