Ukraine blackmails IMF: if there is no credit, the winter will begin with the problem of transit of gas

In January 2010, in Kiev may have difficulties with payment of the gas, the consequence will be problems with transit to Europe. This November 9 on the Ukrainian “5-th channel” said Deputy Prime Minister Tymoshenko Gregory Nemyria.

“Challenges to pay for gas could happen if we continue to break Ukraine’s cooperation with the International Monetary Fund. In December Ukraine will pay more for natural gas on its own, but if the program is delayed until January, then it will be very difficult to do,” - noted Nemyrya . “We do not want a repetition of the situation, when at Christmas have problems with gas deliveries to Ukraine and its transit to Europe” - said in this context, the representative of the Ukrainian government.

Meanwhile, the secretariat of President Yushchenko’s mood even more pessimistic. Thus, the first deputy head of the secretariat Oleksandr Shlapak predicts difficulty with the calculations for natural gas in December. “The country will not be able to pay for gas, if again the IMF does not hold out its hand to us such assistance and do not pay for us,” - said, in particular, he said. According to Shlapak, Ukraine for gas in October by borrowing from the International Monetary Fund of funds that would have given in 2010-2011.

As REGNUM News, November 7, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was quoted in an interview with Western media, that the fund will continue its cooperation with Ukraine after the presidential elections scheduled for January 2010. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, in turn, said that the IMF does not give Ukraine the next tranche of the loan, as the government of Yulia Tymoshenko does not fulfill obligations to the Fund. But on the eve of the vice-prime minister of Ukraine Grigory Nemyrya reported that the IMF refused to continue cooperation with Ukraine before the end of the presidential campaign, such statements voiced by the press erroneously. The International Monetary Fund was ready and is now ready to continue cooperation with Ukraine, without waiting for completion

10 November 2009 | credit, europe, gas, government, imf, issue, january, november, transit

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