Speaking at the consultative meeting with Government officials President Victor Yushchenko stressed opinion that Ukraine’s financial system is stabilizing, but reminded the Government and National Bank should yet to do much to support it.
He said that banks system managed to come trough the first and the worst challenge that resulted from world financial crisis – panic among clients. At the same time he put three main assignments before banks and National Bank to maintain the situation improvement.
According to Victor Yushchenko first of all confidence of depositors should be regained. Second – banks that work with enterprises and organizations in transferring wages payments to employees should also provide loans to these enterprises to support national production in the situation when external markets shrunk. Third – negative payment balance in lawns taken from external sources should be corrected using all instruments the Government and banks have.
“Main aim of today’s meeting is to elaborate an action plan for the Government, National Bank and banks system for next seven days to two weeks so that we knew what should be done in order to bring dynamics to policy of economic stabilization”, - said Victor Yushchenko.
