OREANDA-NEWS. August 10, 2009. The Gov’t has been implementing the Anti-Crisis Program and is actively working over stabilization of price situation on consumer market. The Economics Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn announced during a media conference.

“The Government is doing all its best to stabilize the situation on the consumers market,” the Minister emphasized.

At this, he drew attention to a tendency towards reduction of a consumer prices index and informed July demonstrated deflation at the level of 0.1% on the market of consumer prices.

Bohdan Danylyshyn stressed that there are no objective reasons in Ukraine for growing of consumer’s prices on foodstuffs in August and in the coming autumn months aslo, taking into account high yield of crops. Consequently, according to him, deflation dynamics is possible on the market of foodstuffs in August.

“Growth of consumer’s prices is kept up by a respective policy. Only purposeful activity of the Government, the National Bank and local authorities can stabilize the situation on the home market of Ukraine and create conditions favourable for respective price dynamics that corresponds to wishes of the population,” the Minister urged.

Besides, Bohdan Danylyshyn informed the Economics Ministry plans to forward for Government’s consideration a series of normative-legal acts which defined a new strategy of the state policy for the following period. Notably, at the beginning of September the Gov’t will be proposed to view a strategy of the country’s development “Ukraine-2020”, strategy of national modernization which will contain the whole policy of social-economic development for short-term and long-term perspectives. According to him, the Ministry of Economics will submit for the nearest session of the Government draft laws on state forecasting and strategic planning, on prices and price forming and on home trade.