Victor Yushenko

The UNIAN Archive. Victor Yushenko, the Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). On the press-conference conducted on Tuesday, August 10, 1999 Yushenko declared that the Ukrainian Government and NBU do not see any reasons to carry out the inspection and considering the possibility of change of the parameters of the currency corridor. Within the next few days the market will be optimized and the currency value of hryvnya will return to the optimum scope. According to Yushenko, NBU legibly controls the situation, today the national currency "occurs in the stage, when its strengthening is regular". For the 1999 the NBU determined the width of the currency corridor in the limit of 3.4 -4.6. On August 9, 1999 the official NBU rate made up Hr4.6784 per USA$1. Photo by Alexander Sinitsa/ UNIAN