KIEV, June 2 – The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine has approved conceptual principles for the state policy on energy saving and instructed the cabinet to draw up program on the issue.

"NSDC has approved the conceptual principles of the state policy on energy saving... The cabinet was instructed [to draw] up a program on energy saving in the national economy, providing a number of energy saving measures, approving a resolution on the state fund of energy saving this year and creating a state energy saving indicators monitoring system," Raisa Bohatyriova, NSDC secretary said at a briefing last week.