"The confirmation by the company 'Western Union' of its intentions to continue cooperation with us is a very positive step. Given the long-standing reputation of the American company, such actions inspire confidence regarding the successful completion of our joint work on reducing tariffs for transfers from the specified countries, in which, as we know, a large number of Ukrainian migrant workers are employed. I hope that soon millions of Ukrainians who are outside their native homeland not of their own free will, and their families who have remained in Ukraine, will once again be pleasantly surprised by the new tariffs on international transfers," noted the Head of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine Oleksiy Kostusyev:
As reported, in October the Committee reminded the management of the American company of its obligation to revise downward by the end of this year the tariffs on transfers from Poland, Greece, Israel, the Czech Republic, and Germany, and to introduce a new service for money transfers from the USA.
In this regard, the company "Western Union" officially promised to complete an analysis of the situation and to report by the end of the current year its results and plans for reducing tariffs on money transfers to Ukraine.
Let us recall that since the Committee began considering the case, the company "Western Union" has reduced tariffs on money transfers to Ukraine from certain regions of the USA, by 2.5 times in September 2004 for money transfers from Russia, and also by 2-4 times from the first of April of this year for transfers from Portugal, Spain, and Italy.