OREANDA-NEWS  On 01 November was announced, that the National Bank of Ukraine, the President Mr. Yushchenko and the chairmen of the 20 largest commercial banks agreed to hold the exchange rate below UAH/USD 6.3. With this aim the NBU satisfied all the requests of commercial banks for foreign currency purchases. With this aim around USD 500mn from international reserves was sold on the interbank forex market at UAH/USD 6.05, which reduced the exchange rate from UAH/USD 7.03 as of noon October 31 settling at UAH/USD 6.25 as of the days end.