KIEV, Aug. 18 - The Board of Directors of the World Bank plans to consider at a meeting on August 25 the issue of the Second Development Policy Loan (DPL-2) in the amount of $500 million to Ukraine.

According to a report on the website of the World Bank, the issue will be the first one on the agenda of the Board of Directors after a two-week pause in its work.

Earlier, deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Dmytro Shymkiv and government officials clarified that the World Bank's issue of a $500 million DPL-2 will enable Ukraine to receive $300 million from the government of Japan under a bilateral intergovernmental agreement on the promotion and protection of investment (an investment agreement between Japan and Ukraine).