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Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said the Ukrainian government reacted quickly and took action after the CCU’s decision. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that continuing the reform of anti-corruption bodies is one of the priorities.
Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, during a telephone conversation with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, noted that The work of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmyhal with the IMF team made it possible to consolidate the relations of the parties at a “high level and achieve good progress”.… This was announced on November 17 by the press service of the Office of the President of Ukraine.
Georgieva also said that the Ukrainian authorities reacted quickly and took action after the decision of the Constitutional Court. He added that the Fund appreciates the cooperation of the head of the NBU Kirill Shevchenko with the IMF team.
“For me, the continuation of the reform of the anti-corruption bodies is one of the priorities. We took a series of urgent measures and decisions, in particular, called a meeting of the NSDC, the government issued an order to ensure the operation of the registry of electronic declarations and I proposed to the parliament a bill on the restoration of the full composition of the Constitutional Court. ” , – said Zelensky.
According to the president, there are no threats to NABU activities. The teams discussed the full return of the electronic return and took note of the action plan and the preparation of the relevant bills, he added.
The president, in turn, said that he constantly supports the independence of the NBU, and emphasized that Ukraine has fulfilled “all the structural milestones foreseen for the review of the IMF program.”
The press service said the parties discussed the importance of adopting a balanced budget by 2021, as well as the risks of the CCU’s decision to abolish some of the provisions of the anti-corruption legislation.
The Executive Board of the IMF approved a new stand-by cooperation program with Ukraine on June 9, 2020, we are talking about the allocation of $ 5 billion, which they plan to transfer in four tranches. On June 12, Ukraine received $ 2.1 billion from the first tranche.
Ukraine’s Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko said that Ukraine expects to receive two tranches of $ 700 million from the IMF by the end of the year. However, the deputy director of the National Bank of Ukraine, Dmitry Sologub, believes that this opportunity has already been lost and it is necessary to try to get one.
Zelensky is convinced that in the current situation, the Ukrainian economy needs money from the IMF. “It is profitable for us, not profitable, now it is like blood for the human body ”, he explained.
Shevchenko said the IMF “has certain concerns about anti-corruption policies.”
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