KIEV, July 17 – Setting unrealistically high macroeconomic indicators for Ukraine's economy has weakened the efficiency of the government's anti-crisis efforts and disrupted the balance of budget, taxation, pension and monetary policies, President Viktor Yushchenko said at a meeting with regional mass media at his Syniohora residence in Ivano-Frankivsk region.

"The government didn't have enough courage to tell the truth that their political schemes and desire to see only positive statistics have produced a model of economic development and a budget model which do not respond to the system of anti-crisis measures," he said.