The allocation of the fourth tranche of the EurAsEC Anti-Crisis Fund loan to Belarus will be discussed in Minsk on December 5, Belarusian Finance Minister Andrej Kharkaviec.
Asked about the progress in negotiations with the EurAsEC Anti-Crisis Fund regarding the allocation of another tranche in the stabilization loan and when Belarus may expect to get it, the Finance Minister remarked: “I wouldn’t like to get ahead of myself, moreover, the comments preceding the previous tranche indicated that Belarus had failed to meet a lot of conditions. Nevertheless, things turned out to be totally different from what some commentators imagined. In the near future Anti-Crisis Fund experts will arrive in Minsk. We will start working with them on this matter. A session of the Anti-Crisis Fund Board is scheduled for 5 December. The session is supposed to evaluate actions of the government and the National Bank in order to make the decision.”
“All in all, I am a pragmatic person. I believe that if we have to answer some questions and someone doubts some things, we should demonstrate the real situation or explain what things need correcting. The key goal of our joint program is ensuring the macroeconomic balance. We will steer for that. So far I haven’t seen any reasons for the fund to believe our work has not been successful,” said Andrej Kharkaviec.
Apart from that, the Finance Minister said that the Belarusian side was ready to resume negotiations on a new program of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund. “In principle, we are ready to resume the talks and expect an answer from our partners,” he remarked.
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