The U.S. will expand economic support to Kiev, Biden said
Vice-President of the USA Joseph Biden said About extending economic support of Kyiv during a telephone conversation with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, says the President.
According to Biden, currently employs a special group to expand direct economic support of Ukraine. He also said that the IMF is currently considering the provision of the second tranche of support under the stand-by program (the credit granted to the member countries the IMF for a particular purpose).
It is also noted that in addition to financial and economic support of the US considering the possibility of increasing aid to Ukraine and in other spheres.
Ukraine received in the beginning of may 3, 2 billion of the 17-billion dollar package of IMF loan, the first evaluation mission ended in Kyiv in July, and decisions On the allocation of the second tranche is expected to be ready before the end of August. The Fund refuses to explain the possibility of revising the program. The government of Ukraine has stated that it may need more funds against the background of political instability and the deteriorating economic Outlook.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine, read the chronicle of Last news .
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