The prime minister assures the government has no intention to break a single principle of corporate reform.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal says the termination of powers of members of the Supervisory Board of National Joint-Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine, as well as the dismissal of Chairman of the Board Andriy Kobolyev did not affect negotiations with Ukraine's international partners.
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"Creditors and our partners may be affected by decisions that will break the principles of corporate reform, as well as other reforms that are being implemented in Ukraine. We had no intention to break a single principle of corporate reform and are not going to break it," he said.
The prime minister stressed that Western partners were more concerned with the continuation and completion of the reform in the field of justice, the anti-corruption system, namely the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP), and other anti-corruption legislation. Shmyhal believes that the third or fourth priority is the development of corporate governance reform, but in conjunction with a large-scale privatization campaign, and other reforms.
"Both Kobolyev and [Yuriy] Vitrenko [newly appointed Chairman of the Board] are perceived by Western partners as top managers and reformers. Our partners' literal phrase is as follows: the surname does not matter," he stressed.