IMF's Technical Mission To Visit Ukraine On November 9-17

A technical mission of the International Monitory Fund (IMF) will visit Ukraine on November 9-17 in order to discuss the draft state budget for 2018.

The IMF Representative Office to Ukraine has said this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

The government expects the Verkhovna Rada to consider the draft state budget for 2018 in first reading on November 14-17.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman urged the Verkhovna Rada to take the 2018 draft state budget to immediate consideration.

In accordance with a timetable of the November 7-10 plenary meetings of the Verkhovna Rada, the Rada was to consider the draft state budget for 2018 on November 7.