Ukraine's public debt is $65.7 billion – PM

The amount of public and publicly guaranteed debt of Ukraine has currently dropped to $65.7 billion, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said at the final press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.

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"As of the moment when I took the Prime Minister’s office [March, 2014], it was $73 billion. To date, the amount of debt dropped to $65.7 billion," said Yatsenyuk.

He reminded that Ukraine held debt transactions in 2015, writing off about $3 billion and extending maturity of other debts.

Read alsoUkraine’s PM hopes Ukraine to get $10 bln of loans in 2016As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine’s total public and publicly guaranteed debt as of September 30, 2015, amounted to $70.671 billion.

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