OREANDA-NEWS. On November 26, 2008 Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has commissioned the profile ministries to revise and amend the agreement on attracting the strategic investors for modernization and reconstruction of heat power plants. The Head of Government gave this commission at the meeting on infrastructure energy projects.

Yulia Tymoshenko stressed that it is not necessary to modernize, reconstruct and re-equip the heat power plants at public expense, state guarantees but at the expense of attracting the strategic investors for such objects.

The PM noted that taking into consideration the impact of the global financial crisis one should revise and amend the agreement on attracting the strategic investors for every heat power plant. According to her, it is expedient to envisage that Ukrainian materials, equipment and metal production should be used for reconstruction and modernization of such objects. As Yulia Tymoshenko says, it is necessary to attract the domestic building organizations for works using domestic construction materials.

Yulia Tymoshenko has commissioned head of the advisers’ group Vitalii Haiduk to take under personal control an issue on attracting the strategic investors for projects on completion and reconstruction of the heat power plants and hold a separate meeting devoted this subject.

The PM has also commissioned to prepare for the next week a meeting on attracting investments for reconstruction of the gas transportation system of Ukraine. “We’ll accelerate all process concerning this credit at most,” the Head of Government informed.