Russia will take on a maximum hard position and will defend its national desires, If the Ukrainian authorities will refuse to pay Moscow's foreign debt, said the Prime Minister Medvedev D. a..
"If It really be so designed, It is without doubt the default of Ukraine, That will no doubt affect the processes of agreements with the international monetary Fund. We will take the maximum hard position in this case and we will defend our national desire "- quoted Medvedev's message on the air of TV channel "Russia-1", RIA " Novosti "." It looks like in practice as the failure of the Bolsheviks to pay for the debts of the tsarist government, " added the Prime Minister. On Tuesday the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a law that will give the ability to suspend payments on restructured debt.
simultaneously, the U.S. Treasury Department supported the government in Kiev in a dispute with creditors on the restructuring of Ukrainian debts. Phrase American Minister was made on the background of difficult talks in Kiev with private creditors. Russia in these negotiations is not involved because he believes private loan Ukraine $ 3 billion sovereign and insists on his timely return. Before that, it was announced that in the Verkhovna Rada registered a draft law of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, giving him the right to suspend payments on foreign debt obligations, trapped in the perimeter of the planned restructuring

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