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Yushchenko calling Italian business to invest in Ukrainian economy

Ukraine is ready to stir up the cooperation with Italian business in many spheres including energy and metallurgy. During the meeting with the heads of unions of industrialists and entrepreneurs, leading bankers and businessmen the President of Ukraine called them to intensify cooperation with Ukraine, press office of the President reports.

He also invited Italian companies to invest into projects on holding Euro-2012. The matter concerns the modernization of transport nets, sport, cultural and tourist infrastructure.

According to the President, Ukraine is interested in foreign investments into the extraction of hydrocarbons on its soil and increase of power efficient production.

In his speech Yushchenko reminded about big investment projects being carried out by Italian companies: the modernization of Alchevsk metallurgical works, reconstruction of “Azovstal” consortium, construction of steel-smelting complex in Dnipropetrovs’k. The president also pointed out the successful activities of Italian banks in Ukraine.