OREANDA-NEWS. On April 17, 2009 The Premier of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko promised overall support to investors by the Government. She announced during her meeting with Chief Executive Officer of the Nestle company Paul Bulcke.

“I hope in these hard times real partners of Ukraine will be augmenting investments instead of winding up their business,” Yulia Tymoshenko urged. The Premier emphasized under conditions of the world financial and economic recession support of investors is rather crucial for Ukraine. She explained the Government takes measures on a systematic basis which are directed to making investment climate within the country more attractive. Yulia Tymoshenko assured the Gov’t will further back investors, in particular in the issue of simplification of permission procedures.

For his part, Paul Bulcke has highly evaluated activity of the Government in the times of global financial crunch. He informed the Nestle company has been operating in Ukraine since 1994 and has no intentions to wind up their activity. According to him, the company has already invested into Ukraine’s economy around UAH 2.5 bn. This year the Nestle plans to invest UAH 286 mn and UAH 36 mn into building of two factories on the basis of Ukrainian corporations Torchyn and Svitoch.

The Nestle company is the world’s foremost nutrition company.