KIEV, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Ukraine has a good chance of continuing its programme of support from the International Monetary Fund only if it takes difficult budget decisions, President Viktor Yushchenko's top economic aide said on Friday.
An IMF team is in Kiev to review progress before disbursing the next part of a $16.4 billion loan.
"I assess the possibility of continuing (the IMF programme) as quite high only if Ukraine, as it did late last year, shows its readiness to take difficult decisions on the budget and for companies and for our people... not through words but through its decisions," economic aide Oleksander Shlapak told a news conference.