The Ukrainian government remains optimistic about the prospects of its receiving a fourth tranche of a loan provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to the Web site of the Cabinet of Ministers.
“The government is by no means rejecting the fulfillment of its
assumed commitments, and therefore, is optimistic about further talks
on the allocation of the fourth tranche of the loan from the IMF,”
reads the statement.
Negotiations with the fund’s visiting mission continue in a
constructive atmosphere, and “media reports with negative predictions
regarding cooperation with the IMF are totally untrue,” the government
said.
The Cabinet “once again has to note groundless attempts to fuel
hysteria over cooperation between the government of Ukraine and the
IMF,” it said.
“That is why the office [of the Cabinet’s secretariat] asks “news
writers” from the Ukrainian president’s secretariat to stop criticizing
the government’s policies absolutely without any grounds, especially
its relations with international financial organizations. We have
witnessed this criticism during the whole period of stand-by program
negotiations. We believe that, during the crisis, one should think
about the country’s fate, not his own political rating,” it said.
