KIEV, Feb. 14 ??“ The hryvnia can become fully convertible only after the country's political and economical development course is stabilizes, Oleksandr Savchenko, a deputy governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, said.

"Firstly, political stability and secondly, the trust of Ukrainians in their currency and the stability of the political and economical course are needed to introduce a really convertible currency for use in capital transactions," Savchenko said at a roundtable in Kiev on Tuesday.