KIEV, Jan. 19 – A technical mission of the International Monetary Fund will soon arrive in Ukraine to study the situation in the country and prepare to allocate another tranche of its $17 billion stand-by credit, said Deputy Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyria.

"A technical mission of the International Monetary Fund will return to Ukraine soon to continue to discuss with Finance Ministry experts the parameters and the fulfillment of the budget for 2010," he said at a press conference in Kiev.