THE STATEMENT of the European Party of Ukraine Concerning the Power Decision to Raise the Gas Prices for the People

21/07/2010 16:30

THE STATEMENT
Of the European Party of Ukraine
Concerning the Power Decision to Raise the Gas Prices for the People

The European Party of Ukraine declares the resolute and basic disagreement concerning the National Regulation of Electric Power Industry Commission’s decision of August 01, 2010 to increase the cost price for natural gas for the population on 50%. More than that under the agreement with the International Monetary Fund the power intends to continue further gas price growth for the population to “economically well-founded level”.

The biggest trouble in this situation is caused by the final word-combination. The power does not give explanations and, undoubtedly, will not give them to “the economic substantiation”. Further we are standing before the reusable increase of prices not only for the used gas, but also for other utilities. Against constant rise in prices for essential commodities and foodstuff it is not clear how a lonely pensioner receiving 700 UAH per a month will survive in general. There is also a secret in the statement of the National Commission about differentiation of the prices for gas for different levels of population, a source and the mechanism of compensation of such difference.

Considering it the European Party of Ukraine reminds the authorities in power of signing the unfortunate “Kharkiv agreements” which have been meant to provide essential reduction of the price for the Russian gas and about their promise not to raise the natural gas price for the population. We regard such power step as antinational and we urge to listen to the voice of common citizens on whom excessive debt burden has been hung up.

The European party of Ukraine both before and after signing of “the Kharkiv agreements” had been underlining repeatedly that they would not have anything positive for the people of Ukraine. The following decision of the power on gas price increase for the population is one more proof to testify this.

The Leader
The European Party of Ukraine
Mykola Katerynchuk