Soviet republic told Reuters. "You have to have harmonised government that speaks the same language from the prime minister to the lowliest clerk." The government has wavered for months over how to deal with former state companies, which Yushchenko says were sold off on the cheap by his predecessor Leonid Kuchma to his cronies. He appears finally to have settled for going through the courts. "Reform has to be carried out in a fast, decisive and comprehensive manner," said Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum's chairman, as he sat next to Yushchenko at the closing session of the two-day conference. "Today it's the fast fish who eats the slow fish not the big fish who eats the small fish." Yushchenko, in an address to the forum, promised to push through tax, health and education reforms, cut payroll taxes and accelerate preparations to join the World Trade Organisation. --More 2320 Local Time 2020 GMT
