At 11am on 1 February 2018, Hennadii Zubko, Vice Prime Minister – Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine, and Georg Milbradt, Special Envoy of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Ukrainian reform in the areas of governance and decentralisation, will give a joint press conference on the topic of “International Support to the Decentralisation Reform in Ukraine.”

The press conference will take place at Ukrinform, 8/16 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street, Kyiv.

Messrs Zubko and Milbradt will present their vision of the achievements and prospects of the decentralisation and regional policy reforms in Ukraine, including the support already provided and still needed from the international community. They will also elaborate on the further legislative steps which are necessary to speed up and consolidate the ongoing processes and make the decentralisation reform even more successful.

Vice Prime Minister Hennadii Zubko heads the Ministry of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine which is in charge of several reforms, including decentralisation.

Georg Milbradt, Doctor of Economics and former Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony, became the Special Envoy of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany in August 2017 at the invitation of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko addressed to all G7 member states.