Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has called on the National Bank of Ukraine to stabilize hryvnia exchange rate, she said at a briefing, Ukrainian News reported.

The prime minister said that there are no grounds for hryvnia fall.

She said that the deficit in January-June 2009, compared to January-June 2008 fell and thus, the hryvnia should be stable.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the NBU lowered the official hryvnia rates by 1.83 kopecks to 7.7673 UAH/USD.

The hryvnia rate in the interbank forex market fell by three kopecks to 8.33 UAH/USD.

Since early 2009, the hryvnia exchange rate fell by 4.78% from 7.95 UAH/USD to 8.33 UAH/USD.

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