KIEV, Sept. 29 – Ukraine hopes for further cooperation with the International Monetary Fund as a cooperation program under the Stand-By Arrangement, which was launched late in July, is being implemented, First Deputy Presidential Administration chief Iryna Akimova said pending a visit of IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

"As long as the IMF's major requirements are being fulfilled by Ukraine, I hope that cooperation will go on," she told Interfax-Ukraine.