Ukraine, IMF agree to maintain flexibility in implementing structural benchmarks - PM

MOSCOW. April 17 (Interfax) - Ukraine looks forward to an International Monetary Fund mission's visit to Kiev in May and has agreed with the Fund to maintain flexibility in implementing its program's structural benchmarks amid the crisis, Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko said.

"The IMF program is of high priority to our team. We agreed that it is important to maintain flexibility in implementing the structural benchmarks," Ukrainian media quoted Sviridenko as saying on her social account following a meeting with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva in Washington.

"We already received the first tranche of $1.5 billion under the IMF's new four-year Extended Fund Facility in March. We are determined to make sure that this program is as successful" as the previous one, she said.

"We are willing to continue working to take businesses out of shadows, implementing reforms, and increasing Ukraine's investment appeal. We look forward to the IMF mission's visit to Kiev in May," Sviridenko said.