At a meeting with the government.
The President noted that the local authorities bear responsibility for developing the infrastructure in small towns and in rural areas. The government must work, however, with the regions to create a system of relations between the budgets at all levels that will encourage and help the local authorities achieve more effective development in their territories.
There is already a foundation upon which to build and work in this area – the new legislation on local self-government and the municipal authorities’ increasing independence.