The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine supported the Council decision on granting the government the right if necessary to suspend payments on the foreign debt of the country.

Ukraine's Parliament on Tuesday passed the government law that allows you to suspend payments on restructured debt.

"Only since the beginning of 2015, having received credit support amount 3, 1 billion dollars, Ukraine has paid its foreign currency debt 2, 4 billion. This debt service is super heavy for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people ", - reported in circulation of the Ukrainian Ministry.

the Ministry of Finance has reminded that at the present time, by agreement with the IMF, the Cabinet conducts dialogues with the holders of its external commercial obligations.

"Ukraine is in a difficult situation in the economy. 7 years ago, on January 1, 2008, our debt amounted to 17, 6 billion, as of 1 January 2015 It was already 70 billion dollars ", - the statement reads.

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