Every new foreign investment in Ukraine is one more step towards our victory - Volodymyr Zelenskyy

2 August 2023 - 20:51

Today, Ukrainian diplomats must work to enhance the interaction of our country's regions and cities with cities and regions of other countries for the sake of reconstruction and development. Other priorities include attracting investment, new technologies, and increasing economic activity in Ukraine. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during an emergency meeting with the heads of Ukraine's diplomatic missions to foreign countries held in Zakarpattia region.

“The more jobs we can save and create in our country, the stronger we will all be. Every new investment in Ukraine now is one more step towards our victory. Paying taxes and excise duties in Ukraine is a very concrete help to our warriors and our defense. Every new technology that comes to Ukraine works to save the lives of Ukrainians. All the programs of patronage of partners over regions and cities that have been damaged by Russian terror and need to be restored help real, practical decentralization in Ukraine,” he noted.

The Head of State urged the ambassadors to take the most important companies for Ukraine in the country where they work and by the end of the year, to provide decisions on investments or memorandums on starting operations in Ukraine, as soon as the security conditions allow.

“But it should be something very concrete, not abstract. Take a hundred of the largest philanthropists of the country where you work and organize their visit to Ukraine. The world should see what is happening here. Be active with business associations - they should know what our country offers - what resources, production, technologies. They should know everything about the project of our post-war transformation,” the President emphasized.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy set a task to do everything possible to expand duty-free access of Ukrainian goods to the markets of partner countries.

The Head of State also paid special attention to humanitarian demining, which is the responsibility of First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko.

In Zakarpattia, the President held an emergency meeting with the heads of Ukraine's diplomatic missions to foreign countries, during which he named five main foreign policy priorities for the next political season.