Denys Shmyhal met with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva
During a working visit to Washington on April 22, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal discussed further assistance to our country in the short term and issues of long-term recovery with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva.
The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Serhii Marchenko, the Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine Kyrylo Shevchenko, the Alternate Executive Director of Ukraine to the International Monetary Fund Vladyslav Rashkovan and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States Oksana Markarova.
The Prime Minister noted that the International Monetary Fund was one of the first to provide significant financial support to Ukraine in the amount of USD 1.4 billion after the start of a full-blown russian invasion.
"We highly value the decision to create a special account under the IMF administration to provide additional assistance to Ukraine from the Fund's member states on a bilateral basis," stressed Denys Shmyhal.
The Prime Minister thanked Ms. Kristalina Georgieva for the IMF's stance that assistance to Ukraine to finance the budget deficit should be mainly on grant basis rather than credit.
Communications Department of the Secretariat of the CMU