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New Ukraine anti-corruption Premier targets Euro 2012 preparations
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 11 - 01 - 2008

Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine's new anti-corruption Prime
Minister, on Friday ordered her government to overhaul its
preparation plan as co-host for the Euro 2012 football tournament, according to dpa.
Ukraine and Poland won joint rights to hold the event in March,
but since then the Ukrainian government has struggled even to begin
an estimated 42 billion dollars in preparations needed if the former
Soviet republic is to manage its side of the event.
A Tymoshenko-led coalition took over Ukraine's government in
December on promises to reduce graft and inefficiency in state
institutions.
The new pro-democracy government will complete a review of steps
taken so far to ready the country for Euro 2012, and the
parliamentary majority she leads will make a new plan national law,
Tymoshenko promised.
"We already running a year and a half in our preparation efforts,"
she Tymoshenko. "We will reverse these trends."
A football-mad country whose national team made the final eight in
the 2006 World Cup, Ukraine lacks substantial infrastructure needed
to host any major international sporting event.
Ukrainian roads and service quality are far below international
standards. Stadiums - all but one dating back to the Soviet era - are
dilapidated, and the country needs to build dozens of hotels
to handle an expected one million visitors.
Overhaul of the country's largest stadium - Olympeysky Stadium in
the capital Kiev - has been stalled for months because of a shopping
centre under construction next door which, if completed, would make
the stadium impossible to evacuate safely.
Tymoshenko at a cabinet meeting instructed Ukraine's top law
enforcer Interior Minister Yury Lutsenko to intervene in the legal
wrangle, pitting two Kiev business clans in a dispute over land
ownership around the stadium.
Kiev developers alone will build 33 hotels to prepare for the
tournmanent, with the first coming on line in 2008, and the last in
2011, Tymoshenko told reporters.
It is a construction challenge of the first order in Kiev's
overheated real estate market where some half-dozen firms monopolize
major construction, and the few hotels lucky enough to operate charge
as much as 200 dollars a night for an unpretentious single room.
The new hotels will cost some 500 million dollars, to be raised
among private and international investors, Tymoshenko said.


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