ODESA, DECEMBER, 12TH, 2008, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMRIE – Mayor of Odesa Eduard Gurvits stated Odesa will not stop preparations for EURO-2012 in spite of the crisis, IA Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.

Eduard Gurvits said that on December. 11th, talking to journalists.

“I know such a decision was made in Dnipropetrovsk. Such decision is a completely unsuitable for Odesa. We are to get ready for EURO-2012 by all means. This is a great chance for the city. Moreover, I repeat once again we never received any financing from the Budget, which though had been provided for. This is absolutely wrong. Poland is helping all their cities and quite substantially. We so far have to count on ourselves only. We will go on with this work actively”, — Mayor said.