President Yushchenko warned the governors about personal responsibility for failing to implement the presidential election program locally. This was stated by the President's press secretary Iryna Herashchenko following the first part of the meeting with heads of regions and the government, reports "Ukrainska Pravda." \n \n"If there are shortcomings, I will not pretend they do not exist," Herashchenko quoted the President as saying. According to her, Yushchenko reminded the governors that the first period of their work had already passed. And "people must see concrete results," therefore there will be "strict demands." Yushchenko also reminded the governors that it is they who will have to fulfill the promises made to the people during the election campaign. \n \nAt the meeting, there was also discussion of facts of illegal land seizure and unlicensed development of mineral deposits. According to Herashchenko, the President gave instructions to "study and sort out and stop these processes." In addition, the President pointed to a imbalance in tariff and price policy in different regions. As an example, he cited the fact that bread prices in Mykolaiv and Kyiv oblasts are significantly lower than in others. \n \nAccording to Herashchenko, it was an "interesting, constructive, but tough conversation." In particular, the Donetsk governor received a remark regarding the decline in GDP growth during the first period. According to Herashchenko, in the first part of the meeting, the President, First Vice Prime Minister Anatoliy Kinakh and State Secretary Oleksandr Zinchenko spoke. In addition, according to her, "certain information was provided by the security officials." \n \nThe second part of the meeting, according to the President's press secretary, will be devoted to "what concerns the governors." At the moment, journalists have been given the opportunity to speak with three governors. In particular, the governor of Lviv oblast, Petro Oliynyk, when asked whether the President scolded him, noted with a smile: "He scolded me for some issues." He also said that Yushchenko criticized practically everyone on various issues. Personally, Oliynyk heard criticism for investment policy and "some economic issues," in particular the work of customs. The governor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sadykov, noted that the meeting was "businesslike" and took place "in a cheerful mode." "We became convinced that what we are doing in Mykolaiv oblast, we are doing everything correctly." When asked why the governors were coming out so gloomy then, Sadykov replied: "We sat for a long time and waited for a technical break." \n \nThe governor of Dnipropetrovsk oblast, Yuriy Yekhanurov, when asked by journalists, said that he "hadn't finished writing 25 sheets yet," and during the meeting, according to him, the President determined what the governors should do first and foremost. Earlier, at the beginning of the meeting, the President asked the governors "not to sleep, but to take 25 sheets of paper and carefully write down" everything said at the meeting. \n \nRead also: \n \nYushchenko's meeting with governors has begun \n \nYushchenko will not let governors go on vacation