Thursday, October 16, 2008

President meets Ukrainian bankers

President Victor Yushchenko gathered representatives of large Ukrainian banks today, to discuss with them the situation in financial and bank sectors of Ukrainian economy and to work out a plan on how to maintain stability in these sectors.

Separate attention the participants of the meeting dedicated to the events around ‘Prominvestbank’.

Speaking at the meeting President said that the most important thing is to maintain calmness among clients of Ukrainian banks and to prevent them loosing confidence in bank system.

He also stressed that for stabilizing the situation beside cooperation between the Government and the National Bank, appropriate behavior and actions from the participants of the market is necessary.

Besides, Victor Yushchenko suggested holding an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet dedicated to discussing how to minimize influence of world financial crisis on Ukrainian market.