Ukraine coal miner
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Kiev sagde at Ankara overvejer et tilbud om at købe Ukraines kulminer som del af landets privatisering af statsejede værdier i år.

Ved sit besøg i Ankara, spurgte Ukraines Præsident Petro Poroshenko sin tyrkiske modpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan om at tage del i Ukraines privatisering.

"Den tyrkiske side udtrykte interesse i at deltage i privatiseringen af energiaktiver i Ukraine, især kulminer," sagde en meddelelse fra det ukrainske energiministerie.


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Ukrainian and Turkish energy ministers Vladimir Demchishin and Berat Albayrak also discussed joint projects to deliver Caspian and Iranian gas to Ukraine.

During the visit, Poroshenko said Ukraine is ready to let Turkey use its underground gas storage facilities. They also agreed to sign the free trade zone treaty by the end of the year.

Ukraine is planning a major privatization of state assets in 2016. One of the main proponents of the privatization was former Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius.

However, Abromavicius left the post in February, saying he did not want to provide "cover" for widespread government corruption.

He accused Poroshenko's right-hand man Igor Kononenko of creating obstacles to his reforms, ranging from a sudden removal of his security detail, to the pressure to appoint questionable individuals to his team or to key positions in state-owned enterprises.