Agreement of Ukraine with creditors on the restructuring of the external debt puts an end to the country's economy, says former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.
in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine registered a package of draft laws on restructuring and write-off of part of the public debt of the country. The Cabinet first approved the provisional rules for the restructuring of the external public debt of Ukraine, which were made on the results of talks in Kiev with the creditors ' Committee. According to these agreements, Kiev will write off 20% of the nominal debt - 3, 6 billion of the 18 billion dollars. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that the completion of the legal procedures of restructuring the Parliament shall enact a law.
"The humiliation is that Ukraine as a state declared themselves unable to pay its foreign obligations. The objective of any government is to prevent not only the default, and does not allow for the formulation of the question about the impossibility of payment for the obligations, "- said Azarov in the interview to television channel " ".
According to his statement, " it is Very important - the reputation of the country for domestic investors, foreign "." If I now said that I refuse to pay for its obligations, who I will soon provide a loan, a loan? The economy cannot develop without investments and loans, " he said.
"Having concluded such a humiliating Treaty, we have given up," Azarov.
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