Ukraine Can Become Major Player of World Food Stabilization Fund
OREANDA-NEWS. October 06, 2010. Ukraine has a chance to occupy an important place in the global division of labor. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov declared at the Government session.
Mykola Azarov noted that he had meetings with Director of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Vice President of the World Bank Inger Andersen and participated in discussions with the most famous experts in meeting at the 7th International Forum "Yalta European Strategy".
"Our partners have tried to convey to the leadership of Ukraine's concern over the fate of post-crisis world, and perhaps the fate of the world that will enter into a new phase of crisis" - the Prime Minister added: "At the same time I saw this situation as the opportunity for Ukraine to find place in the global division of labor. "
Mykola Azarov noted that all the experts agreed that the next few years the world would face food shortages, which might be causes as by global warming and so by self-interest of financial speculators who neglect the real economy sector. According to the Government, already this year, world grain shortage will reach 60 million tons and Ukraine given effectiveness proven technologies, soil fertility support and productivity improvements in a year or two can produce much more grain than it is now.
"Ukraine as a major player of world food Stabilization Fund - a new idea, we proposed the World Bank to consider. Why? Because other resources, stability-oriented global system do not exist" - Mykola Azarov emphasized. The Prime Minister also added that "the key to this project is in our hands "because of the potential of fertile soils, such as in Ukraine, do exists nowhere else. "
"National agriculture innovative development project, which we have approached, gain a new sound in view of the world markets. We must focus on the legal and infrastructural components of agricultural reform and this will open the doors to international and private investors" - the Head of the Government concluded.
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