OREANDA-NEWS. April 01, 2011. The Prime Minister Mykola Azarov sets two main tasks before the heads of central executive bodies: to implement investment and innovation projects in defined terms approved by the Government and bring all sectors of the economy to pre-crisis level till mid 2012. Respective commission formulated the Head of Government during the first extended session of the Government after the reform of central executive bodies, which was attended by leaders of departments, agencies, government services. 

“The main thing: 2011 in Ukraine should take the plunge towards investment and innovation” said the Prime Minister. – “So the first task of every leader - to organize practical work so that in due time, step by step introduced approved investment and innovation projects”.

He said the implementation of investment and innovation projects should be a core component of the increase in GDP in each industry in the coming years.

“Simultaneously the practical results of these projects will be the main criterion for evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of respective heads of departments or agencies. If in your work innovation and investment way will not be decisive - it is almost a conclusion of your failure to position” – Mykola Azarov notified. He guaranteed the support of the Government because there is a very large debt burden on the budget and it is completely nonstandard, highly complex work that requires initiative and skillful managers of organizational efforts.

The second challenge, according to the Prime Minister, which faces the head of central executive power - a common, coordinated work on bringing the economy from crisis to the path of intensive development. “We must ask ourselves the goal by the middle of 2012 in all sectors of the economy to reach to the pre-crisis level” – said Mykola Azarov, noting that this is also a non-standard task, given the unprecedented drop in GDP in previous years by 15 percent.

"But - as Mykola Azarov emphasized, - there is no alternative: people expect us to act decisively, first of all to improve living conditions. Therefore, we need give an extraordinary attention to developing the domestic market and expansion into foreign markets”.