OREANDA-NEWS  President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko met with President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim.

Petro Poroshenko thanked for the constant support of Ukraine. Since 2014, the World Bank’s portfolio in Ukraine has increased 3 times or almost by 4.425 billion dollars. The main increase took place at the cost of the budget support projects worth $ 2.25 billion. New investment projects have been started for the sum of 2.6 billion dollars.

The Head of State informed on the first results of the reforms in Ukraine, the achievement of macroeconomic stability and a reassuring trend towards economic growth.

The parties praised the adoption of the strategic document of cooperation for 2017-2021 aimed to support the Ukrainian reforms.

Special attention was paid to the more aggressive attraction of foreign investments into the Ukrainian economy.