WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 – A Ukrainian delegation during the Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) continued discussing the new financing program and moving forward in these negotiations, Finance Minister Oksana Markarova has said.

She said the negotiations are moving forward quicker than in the previous years. Last year's negotiations took too long, there were several visits to the United States to Annual Meetings, she said in an interview with the Voice of America in Washington.