February 9 2005, 12:20 APK-Inform

Ukraine's government will aggressively promote Ukraine's agriproducts onto export markets - AP minister

The government of Ukraine intends to assist to a maximal possible extent the promotion of locally produced food products onto external markets, the newly appointed Minister of Agrarian Policy Olexandr Baranivsky told the press on February 9.

"We will be pursuing aggressive export policy. We will be assisting the agricultural producer to a maximal degree, in order that they have a possibility to promote their goods abroad", said Baranivsky.

At the same time, he said, the process was not going to be easy, as Ukrainian products were of rather high quality and would be posing a competition to foreign goods, therefore surely not all the countries would be welcoming these initiatives.

Baranisvky assured that the government would be solving these issues on a legislative level and would be lobbying the interests of Ukraine on an international scale.