OREANDA-NEWS. March 13, 2014. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Arsenii Yatseniuk informed the Government had designed immediately a draft law on state procurement with the transparent mechanism of budget fund expenditures. He announced from the Parliament’s rostrum.

He emphasized the volumes of rampant corruption existing in the previous government had been caused firstly by non-transparent and manual budget control through state procurement.

“I declare officially on behalf of the Government: unless the new redaction of a new procurement law is approved, the one envisaging a transparent mechanism of spending the budget funds, the Government of Ukraine won’t open a copeck in assignments to any company, as we won’t give an opportunity to embezzle these funds,” the Head of Government stressed.

Moreover, Arsenii Yatseniuk informed the bill on factual cutting of the state budget would be submitted to the Parliament: “It concerns double cutting of the state budget deficit. All macro-economic showings and revenues of the state budget having been formed by the government of Yanukovych-Azarov are not only far from real, but appear swollen and cannot be fulfilled”.

“There is a very hard period in front of us: reducing of social standards, shortening of expenditures. But it will give us a chance to achieve economic growth in the medium term,” the Prime Minister stressed.

He appealed to the Parliament’s members to ratify as soon as possible the Agreement between Ukraine and the European Investment Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to the tune of USD 300 mln targeting to ensure safety measures on nuclear facilities.

Moreover, he addressed the MPs to immediately vote for the law on resuming trust to the Judicial System of Ukraine: “It concerns those judges who violated law and the Constitution and took bribes, those judges who were faces of Ukrainian corruption in the judicial system, they must immediately leave the court system and come to Prosecutor to testify”.

Apart from that, Arsenii Yatseniuk noted the following day new chairmen of the State Tax Service and State Customs Service, those submitted by business representatives, would be appointed.

“We are establishing order step by step. But there is a request to the whole country and Ukrainian Parliament. None is fighting for power nowadays. The one fighting for power is fighting against Ukraine. I ask you to ensure everyone fighting for Ukraine, for its future, for our territorial integrity and independence. It is our mission and we swore an oath to the people of Ukraine. Let’s stick to this oath,” Arsenii Yatseniuk said.