Viktor Medvedchuk, the Head of Political Board of Opposition Platform - For Life party stated that Ukraine should restore the relations with Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent State (CIS). The statement was announced at the All-Ukraine Unification Convention of this political force, which took place on June 6.
“We should restore the relations with Russia and CIS countries; we should end the monopoly of the big business in the economy of Ukraine. We should restore the transit potential, we should change the fiscal system of the taxation small and medium-sized business; we should make the economy of a country, which serves as a bridge between West and East,” he noted.
He added that it is necessary to change the economic course of a state.
“We should change radically the economic course of our country. We should reconsider the exploitative conditions, which led and lowered our economy and social sphere nowhere near fine. The conditions of the agreement on the Free Trade Zone with the EU, conditions of the entrance of Ukraine to the World Trade Organization,” Medvedchuk said.
Earlier Medvedchuk stated that the key task for the Opposition Platform - For Life party would be the implementation of peace plan and solution of the hostilities in eastern Ukraine.