At the meeting with trade unions’ representatives the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych suggested joining the European initiative to declare 2010 as the Year of Fighting Poverty.
The President has emphasized that now it is important to
elaborate a complex plan of development of Ukraine. First of all this
plan should concern improving social standards, pensions, allowances to
the disabled, poor, etc.
"Fighting poverty shall be a core task for our joined actions", Viktor Yanukovych said, presidential press office reported.
Among the primary objectives of social policy Viktor Yanukovych named
raising salaries. "This is a task for all of us. The Government should
not save on the citizens or solve its problems at their expense", said
the President.
Viktor Yanukovych also stressed the
importance of solving the problem of “shadow salaries”. "We must ensure
legal payment of salaries. Based on this principle the process of
raising pensions will begin. We should not have lower pensions and
salaries than in other countries", he said.
"We set
ourselves a task to raise salaries, being well aware that without this
the Pension Fund cannot be filled and other sectors of economy will not
work", Viktor Yanukovych said. The President also added that social
insecurity and low salaries cause the growth of crime.
Separately, President Yanukovych pointed out urgent issue of providing the youth with jobs and young families with housing.
"A broad social dialogue should become a part of new government’s
ideology and main instrument of the state policy", stated Viktor
Yanukovych.
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