Poroshenko postponed the sale of land for a year
Petro Poroshenko said that the launch of the land market will be postponed for at least another year, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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He said this at a meeting with business representatives on Friday, the press service of the head of Ukraine reports.
“It has not yet been possible to break through the defenses of the populists who furiously oppose the free circulation of agricultural land, but I want to emphasize my fundamental political position: I am for the land market,” the president said.
He believes that for now it is necessary to do related work, such as filling out the electronic land survey registry. “Listen, we spent 25 years trying to create a land cadastre and only managed to do more than half of it. We cannot talk about any launch of the market without the fact that there is 100% digitization of the land cadastre,” the president said.
Poroshenko instructed to complete this work in one year.
Let us remind you that in Ukraine, since 2002, there has been a moratorium on the purchase and sale of agricultural land. Parliament extended its validity several times. During his September address to the Verkhovna Rada, President Petro Poroshenko promised that he would not squeeze land reform out of it. At the same time, reform will be necessary for the sixth tranche of the IMF, although the country has not yet received even the fifth.
The World Bank hopes that the government has declared land reform a priority and that the Ukrainian authorities will promptly complete the preparatory steps and achieve the lifting of the moratorium in 2018.
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