President Viktor Yuschenko has called on the Cabinet of Ministers to accelerate the creation of a state land cadastre.
Yuschenko made the call while opening a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council.
"When will there be a single land database in Ukraine? I am calling on the minister [of agricultural policy], the leadership of the government. What do we lack?" Yuschenko said.
He asked the government ministers attending the council's meeting to provide the information available to them on all issues involving land plots: the number, qualitative characteristics, ownership, and designation of land plots.
Yuschenko said that such information should be in the land cadastre and that he saw no reason to delay the creation of a land cadastre if government ministers possessed such information.
"This is what I call... this is the basis for the state land cadastre," Yuschenko said.
Yuschenko stressed that land is the main wealth of Ukraine and that the authorities should do everything possible to register it and regulate its use.
"We have already registered all the dogs in Ukraine, [registered] all animals. It is only land that we are unable to [register]," Yuschenko said.
Yuschenko drew the attention of Justice Minister Mykola Onischuk to the fact that Ukraine has still not refined the system for registering title certificates, adding that this also hampers government registration of land.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the State Committee for Agricultural Policy has called on the parliament to adopt the draft law on land cadastre together with Yuschenko's proposed changes to it.
Yuschenko instructed the Cabinet of Ministers in February to submit a draft law on creation of a land market and a draft law on a land cadastre to the parliament by March 1.
The parliament adopted a law on land cadastre on March 20, 2007, but Yuschenko vetoed it in April 2007.
