The allocation of Ukraine five hundred million dollars from the world Bank for the pumping of gas is under threat due to delays with the adoption of tax reforms, said world Bank Director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Qimiao Fan.

"Naftogaz of Ukraine ", first planned to get a WB loan in the amount of five hundred million dollars for the pumping of gas until the end of the current year, considers the possibility of using this money to purchase as well as among them natural gas from Russia.

"We currently are preparing five hundred million dollars guarantee for Naftogaz to buy gas that the Ukrainians had a gas safety and reliability of supply in the framework of this winter. But I think all of these efforts now under threat due to the constant delaying of consensus on tax reform during the budget preparation for 2016, " said the Commissioner of the WB, speaking at the Forum on sustainable management of resources.

"Macroeconomic stability is important for the survival of Ukraine

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