KYIV, Sept 6 - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) expects that negotiations with the mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which started working in Ukraine on September 6, will be successful, head of the central bank Yakiv Smolii has stated.

"The IMF mission arrived yesterday. And today it started work with the Ministry of Finance, the Cabinet of Ministers … I will meet with the mission. We expect that the negotiations will be successful and we will achieve consensus in getting the next tranche this year," Smolii said at a briefing.