In Ukraine called the main problem with the receipt of IMF tranche

One of the biggest obstacles to granting Ukraine the next loan tranche from the International monetary Fund (IMF) is the Pension Fund deficit. This was stated by Minister of social policy Andrei Reva in the air “112 Ukraine”.

“In fact, the IMF does not require anything exorbitant. He’s not a charitable organization. It is us funds. But he must have guarantees that the money will return. And if so, he, as a lender, draws our attention to the problematic aspects of the system that we have. First of all, we are talking about the financial problems. Today the biggest financial problem is the deficit of the Pension Fund,” said Reva.

According to the Minister, for tranche Ukraine needs to reach agreement with the IMF.

“The lender makes its own proposals for addressing the problematic issues that he sees. Accordingly, we are in discussion on how we will solve this problem. If you do not want to our recommendations to listen, then please offer your. Convince us that your recommendations lead to the same goal in a different way. Therefore, we are now discussing. We say that the path that we have set for us is not proper. We believe that there is another possibility to reduce the Pension Fund deficit,” said Reva.

Earlier media reported that the IMF has put forward Ukraine seven new requirements, including raising the retirement age. In turn, Vice-Prime Minister Pavlo Rozenko has assured that the current government will not make any moves to raise the retirement age. In addition, the Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman notedthat the reports on raising the retirement age, which is allegedly required by the IMF, is subject to “intimidation”.

He already explained to Reva that pPensionny age in Ukraine will not raise, and all the recommendations of the IMF agreed during negotiations.

By the way, according to the head of the IMF Christine Lagarde, discuss the final technical issues of granting Ukraine the next tranche of macro-financial assistance can be expected within the next few days.

Ukraine and the IMF in March 2015 signed a Memorandum of economic and financial policies which the country should undertake in the framework of the extended Fund (EFF). Just program worked for Ukraine of about $ 17 billion of which have already been allocated 7,7 billion dollars.

So, in September 2016 after a delay of a year, the IMF has approved granting Ukraine the third tranche in the amount of one billion dollars.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine expects that the size of the fourth tranche of the IMF under the program of expanded financing will amount to 1 billion U.S. dollars.

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