
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed into law a bill that allows Ukraine to impose a moratorium on the repayment of its foreign debt until at least July 2016. The bill could impact the repayment of Ukraine’s $3 billion debt to Russia.

Ukraine’s $30 billion external debt
A press release on Poroshenko’s official website Thursday disclosed that the president had signed a law on the government’s powers to suspend payments on foreign loans. The release added that the law authorized the Cabinet of Ministers and relevant city councils to make decisions regarding the suspension of payments on all or several state foreign loans guaranteed by the state and local foreign loans. The Ukrainian parliament adopted the draft law on May 19.
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According to Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukraine’s total debt is estimated at about $50 billion, of which $30 billion is external and $17 billion is internal. The prime minister indicated that the suspension of payments could only relate to private loans, but Ukraine considered its $3 billion debt to Russia also as a private one, a stand which Moscow disagreed with.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the bill de facto was an announcement of a default, casting a negative light on the professionalism of Ukraine’s leadership. Anton Siluanov, Russian Finance Minister, said Ukraine is due to pay off $75 million in eurobonds to Russia by June 20 and that Moscow would turn to an international court if the Ukrainian president signed a moratorium on the repayment of foreign debt.
Moratorium to address Ukraine’s complicated financial situation
Kiev has received several aid packages from international financial institutions, including the IMF, which has pledged to transfer $17.5 billion to the country over the next four years with the first $5 billion installment being received.
The press release from the president’s office highlighted that the adoption of the law will prevent the negative consequence of potential cases of non-fulfillment of obligations, which will release significant funds to support the domestic economy and enhance Ukraine’s defense capacity.
Earlier, the government explained that the moratorium was needed due to the complicated financial situation in Ukraine. The country has to pay $30 billion in foreign exchange obligations in the next four years alone.
The moratorium does not mention Ukraine’s bilateral, multilateral or domestic commitments or the debts to the IMF, the EBRD and other institutional lenders. However, the bill says the $3 billion in Ukrainian eurobonds purchased by Russia at the end of 2013 are on the list of liabilities subject to a possible payment moratorium.
ValueWalk detailed how Hasenstab, Franklin Templeton’s international bond manager, bought several billion dollars’ worth of Ukrainian government bonds. Some analysts felt Hasenstab was following his usual pattern as a “vulture” investor, buying distressed assets and hoping to sell them for a big profit at a later date.
Earlier this month, former Treasury Secretary and White House economic adviser Larry Summers took a swipe at what he called “selfish and unconstructive” investors in Ukrainian bonds. Summers was indicating that Ukraine bondholders like Franklin Templeton should take a haircut. He said Ukraine’s creditors, which include Franklin Templeton and other major U.S. funds, are remaining anonymous and are refusing any debt write-offs so far.
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Who destabilized Ukraine and promoted partisan
war in Ukraine on Russia’s border? Who pushed lies and/or heavy propaganda
about the movements of Russian troops in Ukraine and the shooting down of an
airliner in Ukraine? Who demanded that Ukraine – on Russia’s border with
millions of Russian speaking citizens – become part of NATO? Who did this while
threatening Russia by moving missile batteries, troops, and heavy weapons onto
Russia’s borders? Who has a general who stated that “we need to kill
thousands and thousands of Russians”? Who lied about the people of Crimea,
their lives, history and intentions? Who has the hubris and delusions of
grandeur to, actually, provoke a war with nuclea armed Russia on Russia’s own
borders? Who is stupid enough to intimidate Russia in order to drive a wedge
between Europe and Russia rather than mending fences in its own hemisphere and
begin the funding of the great national and hemispheric projects necessary to
compete in a multi-polar world? Who off shored and destroyed its own economy
more than any nation in history? Who is the “indispensible nation”
who just killed and maimed millions and contains the largest penal colony on
Earth? Who has no democratic federal election process, whatsoever? What nation
has a majority of citizens who were and are against further intervention in
Ukraine and any war with Russia? Not that any of this matters when you live in
a nation which is no longer a rational, funcitoning western democracy
The Ukraine “revolution” was the breaking point for Russia. This was without question a US-supported coup, as evidenced
by the taped conversation of Nuland deciding who would be Ukraine’s prime minister. There was an “orange revolution” in Ukraine which saw Ukrainian nationalists come to power, but did Russia invade? NO! And why not?
Because Russia can get along just fine with a nationalist Ukrainian neighbor, as long as they are not NATO puppets, as they are now. Imagine how the US would react if Mexico had a “revolution” putting a pro-Moscow government in power, which invited Russia to station troops right on the Texas border. Putin is not being “insane” in his actions in Ukraine, whether for better or worse. Frankly, Putin would be insane to NOT do anything.
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