MOSCOW, 8 Jun - RIA Novosti/Prime. The Russian Federation is the sole holder of Eurobonds of Ukraine in the amount of $ 3 billion, issued by the country in the early winter of 2013, told reporters Deputy head of the Ministry of Finance Sergey Storchak.
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine first turned to the holders of its sovereign Eurobonds with a request to identify himself. As noted in the message of the Ministry of Finance on the Irish stock exchange, the Ministry has appointed the agent of the company DFKing Limited, a member of Orient Capital Group to which the requests refer to the holders. Disclose information necessary to eleven June.
"the desire of Ukraine, As a sovereign debtor, to have information about the ownership before released its Eurobonds, we fully Understand," said Storchak.
He said that all issues, except that purchased Russian Federation, actively traded on the secondary market." It is clear that ownership is transferred from one investor to another. In order to understand the circle of holders of debt claims is often carried out reconciliation As legally more accurate and from a mathematical point of view, a more specific description of the obligations of the debtor to the creditors, " continued the Deputy Minister.
"in respect of those securities, which bought Russia, on our behalf, the agent Bank of the Russian Federation, in this case, the Bank, appropriately oriented Euroclear that the first and the sole holder of these securities is the Russian Federation. Both institutions was related to the correspondence, " explained Storchak.
The Ukrainian authorities have initiated conversations with creditors to restructure its debt after the IMF Executive Board in March blessed new program of financial assistance to Ukraine. Before the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine reported that he could not come to a common opinion with the Committee of creditors on the restructuring of public debt of the country.
Ukraine's Parliament on may 19 passed a law that allows you to suspend payments on restructured their external debt obligations. In the list of securities that has the ability to be applied to the moratorium, and got the release of two-year Ukrainian Eurobonds for $ 3 billion, bought by Russia at the end of 2013. Next payment on these shares is scheduled for June 20.
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