KIEV, March 5 – Former head of the IMF mission to Belarus Chris Jarvis has replaced Thanos Arvanitis as IMF mission chief for Ukraine, according to a statement of IMF Resident Representative Office in Ukraine, with a reference to Resident Representative Max Alier.

The IMF mission's last visit to Ukraine lasted from October 25 to November 3, 2011, after which the mission took a break to carry out additional technical work.