Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk ordered the head of the Ministry of energy Vladimir Demchishin to submit before the end of the week for consideration of the government program of development of coal industry.

"I would like to ask the energy Ministry to get to the end of this week, at last, fulfilled the instruction of the Prime Minister on approval of the program of reforming the coal industry," - said Yatsenyuk at the meeting of the Cabinet on Wednesday.

The Prime Minister also ordered to send to the regions allocated Rada 400 million 17, 7 million) to repay outstanding wages of the miners." This is the task of the Ministry of Finance. Money in the Treasury single account. Please extinguish the arrears of wages ", - said the head of government.

first independent trade Union of miners of Ukraine reported that the miners from several mines from Kiev-controlled parts of Donetsk region declared a strike because of unpaid salaries. Most of them then came to Kyiv to hold demonstrations of disagreement. Miners also told about his intention in April to hold a national Congress at which it is proposed to invite the country's top leadership. Demchyshyn stated before that the authorities hope until may to repay the arrears of wages of miners. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko yesterday signed a law that will give the opportunity to repay the debts on wages to the miners.

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