Ukraine has surrendered IMF
March 3, 2009 | Vetting explained
Yushchenko and Timoshenko have agreed to cancel privileges, to rise in the price and to release grivna.
On Monday evening it became known that to the International currency fund the letter from the Ukrainian authorities behind Victor Yushchenko, Yulia Timoshenko signatures and heads НБУ Vladimir Stelmaha has left. The Party of Regions which representative Nikolay Azarov participated in letter discussion on Friday, has declared refusal of the signature. And speaker ВР Vladimir Litvin as deputies have informed us, on a question - whether it will sign the letter, - has answered:" I without parliament under a cloth will not sign anything ". And it means that for the letter text it would be necessary to vote to deputies.
But the letter does not keep within at all election campaign frameworks. In edition of our newspaper its draught variant in which that the Ukrainian power promises to make in exchange for granting of the next tranche of IMF is listed has arrived. And, judging by document structure, the text was written by fund, and our power has brought in it editings and has signed.
We will list only the most resonant promises.
First, it is pension reform which should enter till the end of 2009: it agree to it, every year in Ukraine the pension age for six months (that it is less spent for pensioners) will rise. That is in 2010 on pension will leave in 60,5 years of the man and in 55,5 years of the woman, in 2011 - in 61 and 56 accordingly. When age growth will stop, is not informed.
Secondly, all privileges on utilities will be liquidated. And in the document does not become any exceptions, and it means that privileges, maybe, will clean even to veterans of war and invalids.
Thirdly, the price for gas for the population promise to rise considerably. That is actually it wish to finish to level market that the state did not help from the budget a difference. Fourthly, the market rate establishment гривни to dollar is promised, and after its stabilisation (level is not specified) the Natsbank should limit strongly interventions on Mezhbank for the sake of safety of the золотвалютных reserves.
Also in the document it is accurately registered that the budgeted deficit cannot be covered at the expense of issue of monetary weight - only at the expense of external loans and increase in tax loading.
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