IMF mission visits Kyiv on November 18-19, IMF executive board to meet on Ukraine in mid-December

10:38, 23.11.2013 1 min read

A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was in Kyiv from November 18-19 to hold discussions on the ex-post evaluation of the 2010 Stand-by Arrangement (SBA), Director of the IMF Communications Department Gerry Rice said.

"Further technical consultations between the staff and the authorities are continuing with a view to ensuring that policies are sufficiently ambitious to address Ukraine's challenges," he said at a briefing in Washington held every second Thursday.

He said that the previous staff mission visited Kyiv in the second half of October for the 2013 Article IV Consultation, and additionally the first post-program monitoring review. "The Article IV mission emphasized the need for significant progress in all of the key policy area," he said.

He also said that the IMF executive board meeting to discuss the Article IV Consultation and the ex-post evaluation is tentatively scheduled for mid-December.