Kremlin considers IMF decision on Kyiv’s debt very dangerous precedent
MOSCOW, December 9. /TASS/. The Kremlin believes the IMF’s decision on lending to the countries with past-due loans to be a dangerous precedent, the causes and possible consequences of this decision will be analyzed, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.
“We will carefully analyze the causes and possible consequences of this decision,” he said. Peskov added that the main issue is sovereign debt of Kyiv. “The [The decision of the IMF – TASS] precedent, of course, is unwanted for us and, most importantly, from our point of view, quite dangerous in the international practice, because, in plain language, creates a very dangerous precedent for allowing the possibility of non-payment of sovereign debt,” Peskov said.
“The question is – what will happen next?” the press secretary of the Russian president concluded.