KIEV, Oct. 6 ??“ The Ukrainian government has criticized the State Property Fund for the extremely low flow of revenues from privatization, and instructed it to urgently increase the number of facilities for sale.

"[The SPF must] urgently submit a coordinated draft cabinet decision on expanding the list of companies in which state stakes must be sold in 2006, in order to completely fulfill the target privatization revenues for the budget," reads the Cabinet of Ministers instruction to the SPF.