KIEV, Oct. 29 – To be effective, the anti-crisis draft laws should contain measures to tackle the deficit of Ukraine's balance of foreign trade, according to former First Deputy Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, head of the parliamentary finance committee and one of the leaders of the Regions Party.

"Measures to cut the misbalance between exports and imports are absent in the president's draft law," he said at a briefing in Kiev on Tuesday.

He said that the cabinet's draft law, which was submitted earlier, also failed to address the problem.