The restoration of the Ministry of Industry Policy will help improve the situation in metallurgy - Viktor Yanukovych

Answering the question of the Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent Artem Maslakov about the priority measures to overcome the crisis in Ukrainian metallurgy, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych said that “I decided to restore the Ministry of Industrial Policy. I am sure that this step will help improve the situation, including metallurgy. All these measures should help us overcome the difficulties that now worries Ukrainian metallurgy, and provide positive trends in 2013. "

The situation in the metallurgical sector, the president holds on constant control: “The situation in metallurgy is discussed during each of my working trip to industrial regions, during meetings with the heads of executive bodies and industry enterprises,” Viktor Yanukovych emphasized.

The critical dependence of Ukrainian metallurgy on export markets must be leveled by increasing domestic demand for metal rolling. To this end, the authorities "adopted laws that provide state support for the shipbuilding industry, the sale of domestic aircraft, the creation of new jobs in promising sectors of the real sector," the President of Ukraine emphasized.

The National Bank and the relevant ministries have been given a clear indication to mitigate the credit-money policy for the metallurgical industry, to provide the enterprises of the steel sector of Ukraine financial preferences.

Recall that by decree of Viktor Yanukovych on December 24, 2012, the Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine was restored, which was previously reorganized in accordance with the Presidential Decree of December 9, 2010 to the Stateageneration of State Corporate Rights and Property and finally ceased to exist at the end of 2011.

According to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov earlier, the deputy minister Yuri Boyko will offer a candidacy for the post of head of the reanimated ministry.