President Viktor Yanukovych on Feb. 4 in Warsaw said it's a challenge for him to improve the image of Ukraine while ensuring stability within the country.
In a news item posted by his website, the president said Ukraine will launch reforms on 21 directions in 2011, adding that eforms implemented last year in Ukraine are already producting result.
Yanukovych said the crushing blow delivered under his rule to corruption and bureaucracy has been met with resistance.
"Bureaucracy and corruption are today hiding behind democratic slogans in Ukraine," Yanukovych said. He added that many lies told and attempts made to misinform the international community and ordinary people in Ukraine about the true state of affairs in the country.
"The Ukrainian nation is wise and it will understand.Because a small handful of people, who have been plundering the country for 20 years is only a handful, from which the whole society, the whole state and our image in the world have been suffering.The interest of the Ukrainian nation is that the practice was put an end to…The country has to change, " Yanukovych said. "We need to reverse our approaches 180 degrees, and we will do it. The Ukrainian nation stimulates us to," Viktor Yanukovych stressed.
