KIEV, Oct. 10 – Ukraine needs to lift the ban on export of timber and settle the issue of social payments to internally displaced persons in order to get the next tranche of macro-financial assistance to the tune of EUR 600 million from the EU, new head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine, Ambassador Hugues Mingarelli said.

The EU has already issued the first tranche worth EUR 600 million to Ukraine and expects Kiev to comply with two remaining conditions for the provision of the second EUR 600 million tranche, Mingarelli said at his first press conference in Kiev on Monday.