Kiev: The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it will discuss on April 3 whether to approve the next $1 billion (Dh3.67 billion) loan payment for cash-strapped Ukraine after earlier postponing the decision. “Consideration ... is being scheduled for April 3, 2017,” Jerome Vacher, the IMF’s representative in Ukraine, said in a statement. Cash-starved Ukraine is desperately waiting for the next instalment of a $17.5 billion rescue programme that has been held up repeatedly since it was agreed in 2015 over delays by Kiev to carry out reforms. Ukraine has thus far seen only $7.3 billion of that money.