The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Ukraine is going well, and Ukrainian authorizes are committed to economic reforms, a senior IMF official said Friday in Washington after a visit to the country. Reza Moghadam, the director of the IMF European Department, visited Kiev as part of the international lender's fact-finding mission to study Ukraine's finances. Officials in Kiev say they are near bankruptcy and have sought international aid. "I am positively impressed with the authorities' determination, sense of responsibility, and commitment to an agenda of economic reform and transparency," Moghadam said in a statement.
