KIEV, May 28 – The positive trends in Ukraine's balance of payments in March were reinforced in April, which brought the country close to a point of absolute balance over the four months ending April 2012, said Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the National Bank of Ukraine governor.

"I don’t remember that the balance of payments in the first four months of the year being equal to dozens of millions of dollars in the history of the hryvnia, that is in a two-digit figure. This means that there was no pressure towards strengthening or weakening the hryvnia," he told Interfax-Ukraine.