Contents tagged with anti-corruption court
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US urges Ukraine to create anti-corruption court in accordance with IMF requirements
The United States has called on Ukraine to create an anti-corruption court that meets the requirements of the International Monetary Fund.
US State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert noted this in a statement released on June 5.
"The United States calls on the government of Ukraine to implement deep, comprehensive, and timely reforms that reflect the demands the people of Ukraine made during the Revolution of Dignity: an end to systemic corruption, faster economic growth, and a European …
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Kyiv may tighten monetary policy and impose currency restrictions if IMF does not give next tranche
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) warned that it may tighten monetary policy and impose currency restrictions if the International Monetary Fund does not release a fifth tranche to Ukraine.
"We have been talking through the possible scenarios in the case there is no tranche. If inflationary pressures increase, it will strengthen our monetary tools to contain inflation. We will impose certain restrictions on potential capital outflows," NBU Governor Yakiv Smoliy told journalists on Thursday. …
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Ukrainian President: Anti-corruption Court should be created before the end of the year
According to the website of President Petro Poroshenko, the Head of State hopes that the creation of anti-corruption infrastructure will be completed before the next presidential elections in Ukraine.
"We have almost a year before the presidential elections, and I hope that we will be able to complete the creation of anti-corruption infrastructure, which, I would like to stress, is totally unprecedented in the world," Poroshenko said at a joint press conference with the Federal President of …
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Media: IMF inflexible about selection of judges for the Anti-Corruption Court in Ukraine
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not been flexible regarding the selection of judges for the Anti-Corruption Court in Ukraine, Apostrophe news outlet reports.
Disagreements between the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada and the representatives of the IMF and the Venice Commission became an obstacle to the preparation of the corresponding bill for the second reading, the news agency writes. The IMF insists that the final word in the choice of judges should remain with the international …
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Media: Ukraine’s negotiations with IMF fall through
According sources in several political parties, the evening negotiations on May 22 between Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy and the representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Venice Commission concerning the bill on the Anti-Corruption Court did not produce any results, Evropeiska Pravda writes.
The key issue of a veto right for a panel of international experts, which required agreement with the international partners, was also not resolved.
As a result, several …
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IMF: adoption of Anti-Corruption Court in Ukraine is a critically important requirement for the next tranche
The Law on Anti-Сorruption Court is a critically important requirement for the completion of the fourth revision of Ukraine’s program of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, the official representative of the IMF, Gerry Rice said during a traditional briefing in Washington on Thursday, May 17, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
"More progress needs to be made on a number of fronts before we can conclude that fourth review; and issues include the energy sector and fiscal policy; an approval …
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Ukrainian politician: only one issue remains unresolved to allow adoption of Anti-Corruption Court in Ukraine
Serhiy Berezenko, the Deputy Head of Petro Poroshenko Bloc’s parliamentary faction, told journalists that the only issue left unresolved with the West is the matter of the Public Council of International Experts’ authority.
“There were disagreements over 14 issues, which our international partners had questions about,” Berezenko stated. “We managed to agree on 13 of the 14 amendments. Today, there is one more unresolved issue left.”Berezenko specified that the issue of the Public Council of …
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Kyiv expects to receive $1.9 billion from the IMF in June
Ukraine is doing everything possible to get another tranche of 1.9 billion dollars from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in June, as stated by Ukraine’s Minister of Finance, Oleksandr Danyliuk in the interview with RBC-Ukraine.
Danyliuk noted that Ukraine will get the next tranche when it fulfils all the conditions of the Memorandum which are necessary to review the program.
"Considering our intensive negotiations with the IMF on gas issues, the solution will be found in the very near …
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Ukrainian President promises to establish the Anti-Corruption Court before the end of June
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko expressed confidence that the Anti-Corruption Court will be established in the first half of the year, possibly in May. He stated this in an interview with the German magazine Focus, which was shared on Twitter by the Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk.
"We want to accelerate the creation of an independent Anti-Corruption Court, and I am very confident that it will be possible to do this in the first half of the year, possibly in May," …
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French Ambassador: there is a risk that reforms will be negated in Ukraine
At a joint interview with German Ambassador to Ukraine Ernst Reichel with Interfax-Ukraine , the Ambassador of France to Ukraine, Isabelle Dumont said that she believes that Ukraine has not yet reached the point of no return and that reforms in the state should continue.
"Basically, the question is something we all have been asking ourselves for the past years: Have we reached the point of no return [in the reform process]? I think, fortunately, not yet," Dumont said.
She also noted that …