Alexey Bogdanovsky. International monetary Fund does not comment on the circumstances of the sovereign debt of Ukraine, said Last news Ombudsman of the press service of the Foundation Olga Stankova.

authorized the IMF said that she had "nothing to add" to the statements that were made previously for such information a press-the Secretary of Fund Jerry rice. Last week, rice said the IMF hopes that Ukraine will manage to reach agreement with creditors on time.

IMF is the largest official creditor of Ukraine, but not a party to the negotiations of the Ukrainian government with private creditors on possible debt restructuring. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Tuesday took the government a draft law that enables you to suspend payments on the restructured external debt commitments - this was seen by many observers as a way to pressure creditors. The cartel of creditors holding government securities of Ukraine almost nine billion dollars, resists any restructuring with reduction of body debt (haircut).

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