Ukraine's finance ministry calls "unprecedented" amount of state debt repayment in 2019

Photo from UNIAN Acting Finance Minister of Ukraine Oksana Markarova says it is necessary to allocate about UAH 417 billion (US$14.8 billion) for repayment and servicing of state debts in 2019, which is "unprecedented" amount. Read alsoCabinet approves, submits to Rada Draft Budget 2019 "If you look at the debt load, then payments in 2019 will be about UAH 417 billion. I want to once again draw your attention to the fact that this is an extremely difficult year in terms of repaying and servicing our debt. This is the first peak year after the restructuring that gave us a few years of free breathing," she said at the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Budget Issues on September 20, presenting the draft national budget for 2019. According to Markarova, a "really unprecedented figure" was declared from the point of view of payments on internal and external debts." As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine&#39;s government on September 14 approved the draft budget for 2019 and submitted it to parliament. The Cabinet envisages revenues of the consolidated budget in 2019 will increase by UAH 130 billion ($4.6 billion), to UAH 1.292 trillion ($45.9 billion). In mid-November 2015, Ukraine&#39;s Finance Ministry reported on the completion of the restructuring of the state and government-guaranteed debt with regard to 13 bond issues. Ukraine and the Creditors&#39; Committee earlier reached an agreement on the restructuring of $18 billion in state debt, which involves a full write-off of $3 billion, deferred payments of $8.5 billion for four years, and fixing the coupon rate at 7.75% per annum.

Ukraine's finance ministry calls "unprecedented" amount of state debt repayment in 2019

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