Ukraine is interested in developing mutually beneficial investment cooperation with Turkey, the Infrastructure Ministry of Ukraine said on its website on Sunday, November 29.
Minister Vladyslav Krykliy, as part of the delegation of Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, paid a two-day working visit to Turkey on November 29, during which a roundtable conference was held with Turkish top companies with a total investment portfolio of $5 billion.
According to the minister, Ukraine is interested in the development of mutually beneficial investment collaboration with Turkey and already has a positive experience of cooperation with Turkish companies.
He said the Ukrainian government has approved a list of priority investment projects for the country for the next three years. Projects in the field of infrastructure and transport make up 40% of this list.
According to the Infrastructure Ministry, one of the Turkish companies has expressed interest in modernizing the airport in Kherson.
Ten Ukrainian and Turkish companies have applied for participation in the tender for the construction of a new airfield at Dnipropetrovsk airport.
According to the information on the tender page in the ProZorro portal, participants in the tender will be: Ozaltin, Metag Insaat Ticaret AS, ONUR Construction International (all located in Turkey); Altcom, Olvia, SMT No.8, Rostdorstroy, Altis-Construction, Avtomagistral-Pivden (all located in Ukraine), as well as the Ukrainian-Turkish Black Sea Consortium.
“The next step is an auction among selected participants. We plan to hold it in the first decade of December. We made the technical task as simple and transparent as possible for maximum openness and competition of both Ukrainian and international construction companies,” Head of the State Agency for Infrastructure Projects of Ukraine Kyrylo Khomiakov wrote in his Telegram channel.
The expected cost of the main work on the construction of a new airfield in Dnipro is UAH 5.69 billion.
In the 2021 draft budget submitted by the Cabinet of Ministers for the second reading, UAH 1.4 billion is expected for the construction of the airfield.
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 30/11/20
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Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of November 30
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Consultations on the national budget for 2021 will begin next week, head of the Servant of the People faction David Arakhamia has stated.
“Regarding the budget – in a working order, everything is fine, as it was previously agreed. Next week, consultations will begin. And I think that we will go to the vote next week,” he told reporters on Saturday after a joint meeting of the leadership of the parliament and the government and the faction leaders.
“At the same time, when asked when the issue of considering the state budget may appear on the agenda of the Verkhovna Rada, the politician said that “it may even appear before Friday.”
As reported, on November 5, the Verkhovna Rada supported, with a delay of two weeks from the schedule laid down in the Budget Code, government bill No. 4000 on the national budget of Ukraine for 2021 at first reading, having adopted budgetary conclusions and recommending that the government take them into account when preparing the document for the second reading and increase revenues by UAH 20.2 billion.
TOP 20 countries of Ukraine’s foreign trade partners in Jan-Aug (thousand USD).
