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Russian finance minister discusses Ukraine's debt to Moscow with IMF at meetings in Washington
(TASS) Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov discussed with International Monetary Fund officials Ukraine's debt of $3 billion overdue since 2015.
Representatives of the Russian and Ukrainian delegations did not have official meetings on the fringes of the spring session of the IMF and the World Bank, the minister said.
"As for meetings with the International Monetary Fund, yes, the talks did take place, where we discussed cooperation with the International Monetary Fund on Ukraine's necessary fulfillment of its obligations and on consequences from that default, which Ukraine had on our papers," he said in an interview with the Vesti Saturday weekly television show, adding the talks were under way.
(...) "As you know, Ukraine has changed the government recently, the finance minister, the prime minister, thus the delegation which has come to the G20 summit is not legitimate," Siluanov said.
He said as the Russian delegation prepared its participation in the session, it did not plan meetings with the Ukrainian delegation, "as all earlier contacts demonstrated a lack of productive negotiations process on the settlement of Ukraine's debt to Russia."
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