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Kyiv, July 31 (Interfax-Ukraine) - Ukraine's state external debt, despite the recent provision of large-scale loans to the country, is not critical and does not exceed 30% of GDP, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said.

"In Japan, the United States, and South Korea, the external debt is over 100% of GDP. In Ukraine, after it raised all of its loans, it [the external debt] is up to 30%," she said at a meeting with depositors in Rodovid Bank in Kyiv on Friday.

"This means that we have a very high stock of strength, and the country hasn't run up debts that it cannot cope with," Tymoshenko said.