Poroshenko said about the need to restart immediately the government – RBC

President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine Photo: REUTERS 2016

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the government needs immediate restart. Statements made on the backdrop of resignations in the Cabinet and criticism in the address Arseniy Yatsenyuk government

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said about the need to continue reforms in the country and an immediate restart of the government. Statement by the head of the Ukrainian state was made on Thursday, February 4th, at a meeting with ambassadors of countries “Big Seven” and the European Union.

«The President of Ukraine stressed that determined to continue reforms, which from the government is waiting for the Ukrainian society. This requires immediate restart Government. At the same time, according to Poroshenko, reformist ministers and their teams have to stay, “- said in a statement on the website of the Ukrainian president

Statement Poroshenko sounds in the background of resignation visiting Lithuanian Minister of Economic Development of Ukraine aivaras abromavičius.. Explaining his decision to leave the post, Abromavicius bound him with reluctance “to be a cover for blatant corruption.” The official said that today in Ukraine there was a “sharp activation of blocking reforms.” The official also complained of attempts to interfere with the work of his office.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk, commenting on the resignation Abromavicius, said that he respected the position of those ministers who “under political pressure were forced to write a statement.” At the same time he believes that in the current situation, leaving officials to resign – it is an escape from the battlefield. “We have been too much. In this situation, the resignation – it is run from the battlefield. And here we must fight, “- said Yatsenyuk

The governor of the Odessa region, Mikhail Saakashvili, in response to the statement by the Government of Ukraine Yatseniuk called the” graveyard of the reforms. “. “I want to say that the government is not a battlefield. The government has turned into a swamp of corruption and to reform the swamp. It is not the government but the graveyard of all our reforms “, – said Saakashavili.