The IMF said on the intention to Finance Kiev, even during the state of war

The IMF has no formal legal prohibitions preventing the continuation of cooperation in conditions of martial law, said the head of the IMF mission in Ukraine Jerome Yours.
" We have already collaborated with a number of countries, which unfolded military conflicts of different activity, " said he, " Ukrainskaya Pravda "writes." For us it is important that the country was the reform plan and that the actions of the authorities contributed to its implementation. If progress in this direction, We are always ready to discuss our future cooperation, " stated Yours." We do not have separate conditions with regard to payment of military spending. Moreover, We avoid to Express the position, what percentage of the budget funds coming member country of the IMF should be spent on defense, " he said." Of course, We monitor the dynamics of such costs and study, as it generally has an effect on the budget. If Ukraine will need to increase defense spending, We will see how this will affect the coverage of budget expenditures and will do countries need the need for additional funding, " said Your. According to him, during the first review of the IMF programme studied " the impact of military conflict on the economy ". At that time the IMF has responded to the situation by allowing a small degree to take into account these factors, thereby revising the targets of the government for 2014 in Accordance with deeper recession that We see "." at the same time, We recommended that the government develop a new package of fiscal measures, which will give the opportunity to provide achievement indicators adopted in the last month of summer, " said he. First Finance Minister of Belarus Alexander Shlapak said that Kyiv hopes before the end of the year to receive from the European Union and the world Bank 760 million and five hundred million dollars (about 393, 9 million), respectively. IMF tranche is scheduled for January.

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