Gold and foreign currency reserves of Ukraine reached $ 18 billion, said Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk at the meeting of Parliament on Tuesday.

" We managed to increase foreign exchange reserves, currently the figure of gold and currency reserves of 18 billion dollars, " said Yatsenyuk.

He said that the authorities currently difficult to attract international investors due to the uneasy situation in the country." However, We somehow manage to do it, at least the international organization gave your promise, " he said.

The national Bank of Ukraine reported in mid-may that the receipt of the first tranche of the IMF loan has increased its Gold and foreign currency reserves to 17, 3 billion with 14, 23 billion as of the beginning of may. International monetary Fund April 30 blesed the allocation of Ukraine more than 17 billion dollars in the framework of a two-year stabilization program stand-by arrangement. In early may, Kyiv received 1st tranche 3, 16 billion dollars.

at the end of may the government of Ukraine and the world Bank signed a loan agreement for three new projects for a total amount of 1, 48 billion dollars, and already on may 29 of this international organization has been received $ 750 million. So, it turns out that Yatseniuk announced the increase of gold and foreign currency reserves of Ukraine was due to the receipt of the first loan from the world Bank.

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