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Plans for the privatization of small and medium-sized enterprises in Ukraine have been exceeded, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Ukraine needs investment, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview with The New York Times, recorded on December 16. The transcript of the conversation was published on December 19 on the website of the Presidency.
“Investments are blood for the body. I think Ukraine will die without them. Investments are needed. We made a large platform for privatization, several thousand companies were transferred to the State Property Fund, which is engaged in privatization. Small privatizations and midsize “flew” from the point of view of Speed, all plans were fulfilled in excess. For large-scale privatization, it was banned during COVID-19, so it stopped a bit, but a lot is being done there ”Said the president.
He noted that “several ports in Ukraine” have already been transferred to foreign investors under the concession and “they are already investing money.”
At the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 22, Zelenskiy voiced the idea of a personal tutor from the state for big investors, Investment Nanny. He then said that “if an investor brings $ 100 million or more to Ukraine, he will receive a personal manager who knows five languages, will work with the client 24 hours” and will solve all the investor’s problems at any time. The Verkhovna Rada passed a law on the matter on December 17.
In March 2018 in Ukraine a new privatization law came into force… The document presupposes the distribution of the objects of denationalization into two groups: objects of large and small privatizations. The former are subject to sale by auction, the conditions of which are established by the Council of Ministers.
Before the coronavirus pandemic, privatization was scheduled to contribute 12 billion UAH to the state budget this year, of which 6 billion UAH. – of small privatizations, and UAH 6 billion – from big, informed “Ukrinform”… Overall, the SPF predicted the sale of 500 companies by the end of the year. IN At the beginning of the crisis caused by the pandemic, the Verkhovna Rada lowered the bar for budget revenue from privatization to 500 million UAH in 2020.
The list of major objects of privatization for 2020, which was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, includes a number of oblenergos, CHP,state company “Artemsol”, PJSC “Azovmash” and others. None of these businesses have been sold.
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