Optimistic IMF bets on third time lucky in Ukraine


  • World
  • Monday, 31 Mar 2014

LONDON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund should be ready to hand Ukraine the first $3 billion (£1.8 billion) of a new aid package next month, the Fund's top European official said on Monday, drawing a line under two failed programmes with the country in recent years.

In an interview with Reuters Insider television, Director of the IMF's European Department, Reza Moghadam, also called for the European Central Bank to step up its fight against low inflation and touched on the debate on debt relief for Greece.

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