Finance Minister hopes Ukraine will get new IMF aid in early March - Interfax


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  • Friday, 13 Feb 2015

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said on Friday she hoped Ukraine would get its next tranche of financial aid from the International Monetary Fund in the first week of March, news agency Interfax Ukraine reported.

"In the first few days of March the IMF could approve the programme and by the end of the first week of March I would like to see the first tranche in the central bank's account," she was quoted as saying.

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