UEFA Secretary General David Taylor was satisfied with the outcome of his visit to Ukraine to look into the progress in EURO 2012 preparations, Grigoriy Surkis, President of the Football Federation of Ukraine, member of the UEFA Executive Committee, told a press conference at UKRINFORM's EURO 2012 Information Center on Friday.

According to Surkis, we have got only positive news at the meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Nyon for the first time in almost two years after Ukraine and Poland had won the right to host EURO 2012.

Grigoriy Surkis said he was satisfied with a synchrony of actions of regional and local authorities in preparing for the football championship.

The FFU President also stressed that we should not treat temporary results of the visit and assessments of the UEFA General Secretary as a final summary of readiness of the Ukrainian pretending cities, he said. "I had a chance to talk to UEFA President Michel Platini during the UEFA Executive Committee meetings and he clearly said that a final decision would be taken only after he [Platini] personally makes sure of the preparedness of particular cities for the championship. I have no doubts that the distribution will be proportional and there will be four cities both in Ukraine and Poland," Surkis said.

A major achievement of a recent visit of the UEFA delegation to Ukraine at the head of UEFA General Secretary David Taylor is that UEFA's leadership has seen for the first time "with their own eyes" the work of the Ukrainian cities readying to host the EURO 2012 finals, Deputy Prime Minister Ivan Vasiunyk has announced this at today's news conference at UKRINFORM's EURO 2012 Information Center, UKRINFORM's correspondents report.

"UEFA notables have for the first time felt the level of interest in hosting EURO 2012 of local officials from every six candidate cities. In my opinion, the outcome of the visit was summarized by Mr. Taylor itself, a second high-ranked official in UEFA. He claimed that Ukraine has managed to keep up the pace in EURO 2012 preparations despite economic and financial turmoil. This is a clear respond to those pessimists who have been repeatedly doubted over 2008 Ukraine's ability to fulfill its commitments and be a reliable partner of UEFA and the European Union," Vasiunyk said.

As referred to particular infrastructure objects, the official underlined that the UEFA delegation noted an undoubted progress in building stadiums in all cities.

According to him, the situation with airports is rather complicated, and this mainly concerns Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa. However, the government and local officials are taking measures to shortly improve the situation.

Vasiunyk also stressed that the UEFA guests were impressed with a comfort level for passengers in all five railway stations. The UEFA experts also noted progress in road construction despite the financial downturn.

As referred to hotels, the Deputy Premier said that UEFA's tour operator has been already defined to broker deals for guest accommodation during the championship.