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Taiwan firm insists it is renovating Kiev stadium
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 15 - 07 - 2008


A Taiwanese firm insisted Tuesday it is in
charge of renovating a Kiev stadium for the 2012 European football
championships, despite reports that Ukraine has given the contract to
a German firm, according to dpa.
"In all official documents of Ukraine and the Union of European
Football Associations (UEFA), Archasia is still listed as the tender
winner. Our goal is to design the best stadium for Ukraine so that it
can successfully host Euro 2012," Archasia Design Group's manager Lai
Shih-hao said.
"We are a professional architecture design firm, so we are
focusing on designing the stadium and are confident we can design the
best stadium for Ukraine," he told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa by
phone from Kiev.
Lai refused to comment on news reports that Ukraine has stripped
Archasia of the contract to re-design Kiev's Olympic Stadium, but
said it has hired a Kiev law firm, Vasil Kisil and Partners, and
should the need arise, it will take all necessary legal actions to
protect its interests.
"But I hope there will be a satisfactory solution," he added.
On April 16, Archasia beat 18 contestants to win the bid to
renovate the Olympic Stadium for Euro 2012, to be co-hosted by
Ukraine and Poland.
The 84,000-seat stadium, built in the 1920s, will host three group
matches, one quarterfinal and the final in the summer of 2012.
The budget for the refurbishing is about 200 million euro (314
million dollars).
Ukraine's Ministry of Family, Youth and Sport subsequent to the
tender result delayed signing the contract with Archasia, questioning
the firm's ability and requiring it to provide proof that it is a
legal firm in Taiwan.
On Monday, Ivan Sidorenko, executive director of the Federation of
Football of Ukraine, told Interfax news agency that Ukraine had
awarded the contract to overhaul the Olympic Stadium to German
architectural firm GMP (Gerkan, Marg und Partner GMBH).
However, on Tuesday Interfax later qualified the report, citing
the Ukraine football official as saying GMP had been approved to do
the job, but the contract has not yet been officially awarded to the
German firm.
GMP is a daughter company of the German corporation Hochtief, and
is participating in the almost-completed overhaul of a club stadium
in the east Ukrainian city Dnipropetrovsk.
Ukrainian officials led by Vice Premier Ivan Vasiniuk declared in
June that Archasia's tender win was null and void, saying the company
was inexperienced in building UEFA-standard stadiums and lacked
registration in Ukraine.
Bureaucratic in-fighting within the Ukrainian government,
particularly between the heads of the Ministry of Sport and the
National Committee for Euro 2012, has repeatedly stymied Ukrainian
government preparation efforts for the tournament.
Archasia said all these are Ukraine's excuses to break its promise
to award the contract to it.


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