Yatsenyuk convenes stability council’s meeting to discuss hryvnia

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said he will convene a meeting with the participation of the President, the finance minister, the NBU chairman and heads of the whole economic bloc to discuss financial and exchange rate stability in Ukraine.

“As soon as the Ukrainian delegation returns from Davos, there will be a sitting of the Council of Financial and Economic Stability to discuss, first of all, the issue of currency and exchange rate stability so as the finance minister, the NBU chairman, the whole economic bloc can explain and inform the President which steps to take,” Yatsenyuk said at a meeting of the Cabinet of Minister, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

According to him, the further cooperation of Ukraine with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is one of such steps.

“The IMF is the establishment that assesses whether there are reforms or no. They give money only when there are reforms, and that’s why they must be carried out,” the prime minister noted.

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