At the beginning of his speech, the Deputy Prime Minister thanked Andriy Khudyk for his years of fruitful work and significant contribution to the development of the environmental protection industry. Anatoly Sivak highly praised his moral and business qualities, professionalism, enormous experience and dedication to the interests of the state, thanks to which the work of the Ministry of Natural Resources was brought to a new qualitative level: a stable increase in industrial reserves of minerals was ensured, the efficiency of the country’s mining industry increased almost threefold, imports of mineral raw materials decreased sixfold, the hydrometeorological network was modernized, high accuracy of weather forecasts was achieved, and legislation was improved in all areas of the Ministry of Natural Resources.
In turn, Andrey Khudyk warmly thanked the team of the Ministry of Natural Resources system for their coordinated work and desire to achieve ever higher results, and also wished them not to reduce the achieved level and strive for new professional heights.
Introducing Sergey Maslyak as the new Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Anatoly Sivak outlined the tasks that the Head of State set for the environmental protection agency: increasing the country’s own mineral resource base, modernizing the state enterprise “SPC for Geology”, eliminating unjustified imports of raw materials, building a system for monitoring the development of deposits and the reclamation of quarries, minimizing the formation of industrial waste and its maximum involvement in economic circulation, improving the quality of the hydrometeorological service in the field of forecasting weather conditions for the short and long term, improving plans for restoring order on the land, combating invasive plants, degradation of agricultural lands and their overgrowth with trees and shrubs.
Sergey Maslyak expressed his readiness to ensure continuity in the work of the Ministry of Natural Resources and assured that all the beginnings will be continued and brought to a successful conclusion. The department will do everything necessary to benefit our country.
