The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is intensifying work on the NAZOVNI system to support domestic business, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
“Last year, at the conference of ambassadors, we presented to the President a unique product – the NAZOVNI digital system. This is an electronic account of the exporter, which is directly connected with all Ukrainian diplomatic missions around the world. To be honest, we did not deal with this project from February to June due to objective circumstances, but then I said that war is war, but helping Ukrainian business is also helping Ukraine win the war, because the economy must live,” Kuleba said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
The Minister stressed that no country has won the war with a dead economy.
“We have sharply increased turnover on NAZOVNI, connected absolutely all embassies and consulates to it. This is the principle of one window: the exporter came in, created an office for himself, indicated that he was selling to the countries that interested him, the embassy of the corresponding country immediately saw it, worked it out request, went back to the exporter and said: “You can sell so much of this here, here is the partner, here is the contact, here is how the local legislation works,” he said.
Kuleba added that every two or three weeks he receives a selection of reactions that the business leaves for the work of NAZOVNI.
“We do this in order to hear comments and improve, fix bugs in the system. Our basic client is small and medium-sized businesses, we help them enter foreign markets and earn currency. And when they write kind words, they are amazed that everyone works and the state really helps, it motivates us to work even harder,” he explained.
The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry drew attention to the fact that now the number of applications in the system has increased dramatically, and it is clear that business has felt the real help of diplomats. According to him, as of September 25, 662 companies are already registered in the NAZOVNI system. Basically, these are producers of agricultural products, food, cosmetics, textiles, wood and wood products, heavy industry, IT, construction service providers, Kuleba added.
“In total, this year we received 1,340 applications. And there are already several dozen specific successful projects, when we created new opportunities for Ukrainian companies in foreign markets. We will talk about these cases in more detail in order to attract even more companies to NAZOVNI,” the Foreign Minister assured Ukraine.
