The International Monetary Fund Mission has not refused Ukraine in
granting next tranche of the credit, it has only “taken an interval” so
that the Ukrainian power adopted amendments to the State Budget 2009,
National Bank Council Chairman Petro Poroshenko stated on air at the
ICTV channel, Ukrinform reported.
He also noted that a sharp growth of the dollar rate in Ukraine is
observed only during the week-ends, when the NBU does not enter the
Interbank, having added at the same time that “there will never be 7.5
UAH/USD rate. For today the rate of 7.5 UAH/USD is not a weighted
rate”.
Poroshenko explained that presently, a sharp devaluation of the
national currency took place all over Eastern Europe, and this “process
is absolutely natural”, and it is caused by the fact that “by empty
promises the people are taught to consume unearned things, not produced
by own Ukrainian industry.”
“The Ukrainian food industry and
agriculture are able to feed Ukraine... A key slogan under the crisis
conditions should be “Buy the Ukrainian!”, he said having added that it
is support of the Ukrainian workplaces, ensuring tax revenues to the
Ukrainian budget and minimization of consequences, including social, of
the world crisis in the Ukrainian economy.
