“A similar plan, known as a Marshall Aid [European Recovery Program after WWII] helped Europe revive, today Ukraine needs such a plan. And we are urging you to join us in its creation. We expect to present this plan at the International conference of donor aid that will be held in autumn,” Groisman said during a conference on aid for Ukraine held in Brussels.
“We invite you to establish and send to Ukraine a mission to assess its needs that will allow us to establish the key priorities and the necessary resources,” the Deputy Prime Minister added.
- Groisman noted that the mass protests in Kiev that lasted for months and the current standoff in eastern Ukraine have had a negative impact on country’s economy.
Ukraine is expected to receive a total of $27 billion from international donors such as the IMF, the World Bank, the US and the EU. From this sum about $14 billion is to come in 2014.
[KIEV, July 8 (RIA Novosti)]
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Ukraine threatens rebels with 'nasty surprise' in new push...
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - Ukraine's government kept up military pressure against pro-Russian rebels on Tuesday, threatening them with an "nasty surprise", while the militants said they were preparing to fight back after losing their main stronghold.
President Petro Poroshenko, drawing confidence from the fall of the rebel bastion of Slaviansk at the weekend, named a new chief of military operations in the east following his appointment of an aggressive new defence minister who again demanded the separatists lay down their arms.
A security official said the government's plan to clear rebels from the two big towns of Donetsk and Luhansk would come as an "nasty surprise" for the insurgents.
But Poroshenko - whose officials have ruled out any more unilateral ceasefires - kept the door open to a further round of indirect peace talks with separatist leaders, naming a possible venue in a government-controlled monastery-town in the east.
Poroshenko on Tuesday visited Slaviansk, which lies in eastern Ukraine's industrialised Donbass region.
"Until today Slaviansk was a symbol of terror and violence. Today Slaviansk is a symbol of a free Donbass and I thank you for that," he said on the city's main square in front of what was one of the rebels' main headquarters....................http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/08/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSKBN0FC11520140708?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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