OREANDA-NEWS. April 15, 2011. The Prime Minister Mykola Azarov requires to eliminate the possibility of abuse of public funds. About this the Head of Government said during the Cabinet of Ministers session.

He said that the State Financial Inspection by 1 quarter 2011 found violations at nearly 3000 objects among all audited. “I am extremely concerned about this side of the case: in fact under of these state enterprises, organizations, institutions or there is a minister or head of department. How can bury its head in the sand and expect that this system will cause some miracle the trust of the citizens, businesses and investors?” - the Prime Minister stressed.

Therefore Mykola Azarov charged the head of the State Financial Inspection Petro Andreev “to prepare a detailed analytical report on systemic causes of violations of financial and economic discipline, specific cases, risks that create such a situation with proposals on elimination of the shameful state of affairs”. “All Cabinet members have to advance to study this report and express their views, their vision - how to fix it - at a session of the Cabinet”. – he noted.

“We must overcome resistance to corruption and to eliminate any possibility of misuse of budget funds in public procurement. We have all the necessary tools for that”, - said Mykola Azarov.

He said today there is enough clear law on state procurement, which should be strictly execute, adopted a fundamental law to fight corruption, which also "must strictly execute”. “Moreover, the fuse should be on the stage of appointment to office managers. We must seriously review the terms of a typical contract for those positions that are associated with managing the funds of taxpayers. There should be absolutely clear to the candidate qualification criteria, specific "beacons" assess the financial and economic activities, provisions that allow suspend the head in case of violations. And finally most importantly, we must improve the legal mechanisms the state compensation for damages, as required by the President of Ukraine”, - Mykola Azarov said and asked the Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych to work out draft of relevant regulations and within one month submit it to the Government.

"We can not allow to abuse by budget funds, which are so difficult are given to state", - Mykola Azarov said.