Yushchenko to head the Ukrainian EURO 2012 Committee

The President of Ukraine, Yushchenko, was appointed to head the national organizational committee for EURO 2012. The relevant decree signed by the head of the state was published on the website of the administration of the President of Ukraine.

Other members of the committee include Gregory Surkis, the head of the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU), Oleg Blohin, the coach of the Ukraine’s National Team, Sergij Bubka, the president of the Olympic Committee of Ukraine, Vitalij Klichko, an advisor to the President, Andrij Shevchenko, the captain of the National Team, as well as heads of local administration. Domestic investors are also among the Committee composition: Rinat Achmetov, the owner of football club „Szachtar Donieck”, Ihor Kołomyjski, vice-president of FFU, and Ihor Taruta, the head of the Industrial Union of Donbas and football club „Metalurg Donieck”.

In connection with preparations for the championships co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine, Yushchenko obliged the Ukrainian government to develop an action plan for the years 2007-2012.

This plan will take into account acceleration of the construction of the stadiums in Donieck and Dnipropetrovsk (there are constructed with private money of Renat Achmetov and Ihor Kolomoyski), as well as reconstruction of the stadiums in Kiev, Lviv, Odessa and Charkiv, which are to be put into operation by 2010.

The President has already ordered the government to modernize the Ukrainian transport network, airports and to develop a plan for tourism development.

Yushchenko indicated in the decree that financing of EURO 2012 will be made from state funds and "other sources compliant with the Ukrainian legislation".

To learn more visit the website of the President’s Administration (http://www.president.gov.ua/ru/documents/6062.html).

25th April 2007