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Kyiv, October 27 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Regions Party has described the International Monetary Fund's insisting on the need to veto the law on a rise in social standardKyiv, October 27 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Regions Party has described the International Monetary Fund's insisting on the need to veto the law on a rise in social standards as intervention in Ukraine's domestic affairs.s as intervention in Ukraine's domestic affairs.

"If earlier the position of the International Monetary Fund that extended funds to Ukraine despite the obvious failure by the government of [Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia] Tymoshenko to abide by the Stand-By Arrangement caused surprise, now recent statements by the fund's representatives are provoking objections,” reads a statement published by the party's press service on Tuesday.

The party said that the IMF mission made a statement after returning from Kyiv to Washington on October 25, 2009, “which could be easily perceived as intervention in Ukraine's domestic affairs and the deprivation of our state of its right to pursue social and economic policies on its own."

"So, the IMF mission said after returning from Ukraine that the law on a rise in pensions and wages is not in line with the terms of the economic recovery program approved by the IMF," reads the statement.