KIEV, May 19 – RIA Novosti. The total amount of debt payments of Ukraine for the next four years could reach $ 47 billion, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday adopted government law allowing to suspend payments on restructured foreign debt.“What we have to pay debts? For four years, Ukraine has to pay only the foreign debt of 30 billion US dollars. In addition to external debt, we must pay more domestic debt. This is plus 17 billion dollars”, – said Yatsenyuk during his speech in Verkhovna Rada. International partners will provide Ukraine during the same period, more than $ 25 billion IMF – $ 17.5 billion, the state and the international financial institutions – $ 7.2 billion.
“This year alone, the amount provided for in Budget for external payments, equal to the amount provided for in the budget for the entire national defense and security. This 90 billion hryvnia, we need to get from the budget, and to give our foreign creditors for debts that are not taken, “- said Yatsenyuk.
The Cabinet expects the country that, thanks to the restructuring of Ukraine 15.3 billion dollars from commercial lenders Ukraine will be able to stabilize the situation. At the same time the creditors’ committee of Ukraine, which includes funds holding Eurobonds country about 8.9 billion dollars, has spoken out against the reduction of the principal amount of debt reported on Monday, Reuters reported.
The new law will be in force until July 1, 2016 year. As the annex to the document, the list of such commitments and the issue of Eurobonds hit Ukraine at $ 3 billion, bought out the Russian Federation in late 2013. In addition, in the case of the introduction of the moratorium Cabinet creditors can not foreclose on the court to pay state property. The total debt of Ukraine is currently estimated at about $ 50 billion, or about 70% of GDP, while in 2015, according to forecasts of the National Bank of Ukraine to reach 93% of GDP.
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