DAVOS, Jan. 23 - Ukraine has the chance to reach an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a new Extended Fund Facility program over the next few weeks to receive its first tranche in late February or early March, Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko stated.

"We should in a few weeks agree with the IMF, accelerate their processes in Washington so that they could give us the first tranche in late February - early March," she told journalists on the sidelines of the Ukrainian breakfast organized by the Pinchuk Foundation at the World Economic Forum in Davos.