IMF, Ukraine make progress in loan talks - Lipsky

WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - Progress was made in talks in Washington between the International Monetary Fund and a Ukrainian delegation on economic policies that could be supported by a new multi-year IMF loan program, a senior IMF official said on Tuesday.

'There was a broad consensus on the need to entrench fiscal and financial stability and to pave the way for sustainable recovery,' the IMF's first deputy managing director, John Lipsky, said in a statement after talks led by Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Tigipko.

He said outstanding issues, including fiscal consolidation and financial sector and other reforms, still needed to be clarified.

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