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Yatseniuk gave the order during a government meeting on Wednesday.

"The IMF mission has arrived in Kyiv. I instruct the Ministry of Finance and all central executive bodies to hold immediate negotiations with the IMF mission, and I hope that the IMF experts will help the National Bank of Ukraine to pursue a prudent monetary and exchange rate policy," Yatseniuk said.

By interbank trade closing time yesterday, hryvnia quotations had hit a new historic low of UAH 16.25 to the dollar.

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The NBU also reported on Wednesday that during October the central bank had increased dollar sales by 6.5 times to support the national currency.