Mohammad Shadman-Valavi and Viktor Yushchenko

On the photo: Mohhamed Shadman-Valavi, left, Head of the IMF mission in Ukraine and Victor Yushenko, right, the Prime Minister of Ukraine, photographed during the negotiations in Kyiv, on Tuesday, January, 2000. M. Shadman-Valavi, who arrived in Kyiv, on Sunday, January 17, will work here till January 22. He will check up the readiness of Ukraine to fulfill the IMF debts conditions. According to M. Shadman-Valavi, today the major problem in Ukraine is to pass the real budget for 2000. The latter is one of the conditions of the cooperation between IMF and Ukraine. Photo by Victor Pobedinskyi/ UNIAN