KIEV, May 27 – The situation in the economy and financial system will raise the issue of cutting the refinancing rate of the National Bank of Ukraine to relax the access of companies to credit resources, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"I think that it's time when the rate could be cut," he said at a meeting with the European Business Association and the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine in Kiev.

He said that some currency restrictions could be also lifted, while the balance between the exchange rate stability and currency restrictions is retained.