Yulia
Tymoshenko, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, expects investments of powerful
French companies into Ukraine’s economy. She told the press during her working visit to France, Governmnet portal reported.
The Head of
Government stressed in the course of her visit she had held meetings with
representatives of leading companies of France, in particular Areva corporation
and MEDEF union and achieved understandings concerning their visit to Ukraine with an aim to maintain fruitful
cooperation.
Yulia
Tymoshenko informed for Ukraine a desirable and effective partner
will be a French company, Areva, representatives of which have expressed their
readiness to intensify the work in the direction of development of mineral
resources, notably uranium ores in order to facilitate energy independence Ukraine. According to the Prime Minister,
under conditions of the world financial crisis Ukraine and France should strengthen cooperation in
this direction.
In addition,
Yulia Tymoshenko noted along every direction of such cooperation with French
investors the Government will set up a special workgroup. “We will plan all
necessary steps in order to make joint investment programs a reality for
Ukraine, as I believe the way out of this crisis means drawing maximal amount
of investments into Ukraine, application of these resources and building joint
partnership on this basis,” she emphasized.
