The next round of talks on a new Stand-By Arrangement between Ukraine and the IMF is expected during a traditional annual spring meeting of the fund and the World Bank Group in Washington, DC, on April 19-21, IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine Max Alier has said.
During a discussion of macroeconomic policies in Kyiv on Friday organized by the European Business Association, Alier said that a Ukrainian delegation planned to visit the fund’s headquarters.
According to Alier, the principal disputable issues are the country’s state budget deficit, prices in the energy sector, the banking sector and the lack of flexibility of the exchange rate.
The IMF resident representative said they hadn’t made any significant progress on these issues during the visits of the fund’s two missions in February and early April.
