Ukraine's tymoshenko announces new budget, anticorruption audits
20 December 2007
Published in RFE/RL Newsline
Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko said on December 19 during the first meeting of the new Ukrainian cabinet that the government will prepare and submit within one week to the Verkhovna Rada a new draft of Ukraine's 2008 budget, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reported. The government of former Premier Viktor Yanukovych adopted the budget draft in September, but the presidential staff announced later that it had not included all the social initiatives that were submitted by the president. Tymoshenko also said she wants all Ukrainian ministries to conduct "anticorruption audits or anticorruption examinations" in order to show "how [the previous government] spent each penny, issued each license, privatized and gave into private ownership each object -- whether it was done in a fair or unfair way."
Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko said on December 19 during the first meeting of the new Ukrainian cabinet that the government will prepare and submit within one week to the Verkhovna Rada a new draft of Ukraine's 2008 budget, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reported. The government of former Premier Viktor Yanukovych adopted the budget draft in September, but the presidential staff announced later that it had not included all the social initiatives that were submitted by the president. Tymoshenko also said she wants all Ukrainian ministries to conduct "anticorruption audits or anticorruption examinations" in order to show "how [the previous government] spent each penny, issued each license, privatized and gave into private ownership each object -- whether it was done in a fair or unfair way."