2023-08-21 01:10:00
The Minister of Economy and presidential candidate of Unión por la Patria, Sergio Massawill leave this Monday at the last minute for Washington, where you will meet the authorities of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to negotiate the expansion of disbursementsamong other matters.
The agenda of the national civil servant, in principle, It will last two days and will include meetings with members of the United States Government and other international organizations, while Wednesday will be the IMF vote.
In addition to meeting with the head of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, he also He will meet with important executives from the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the government and Treasury of the North American country.
On Tuesday, Massa will hold meetings with the Managing Director of Operations of the World Bank, Anna Bjerde; the president of the IDB, Ilan Goldfanj, in addition to the directors of the United States Treasury Jay Shambaugh and Micahel Kaplan.
On the night of that day, he will have a dinner with US government officials.
The Argentine Minister of Economy and candidate for president for Unión por la Patria will meet with Brian Nichols, Joe Biden’s government official for Latin American Affairs, on a day in which the main activity will be the meeting with Georgieva.
At the meetings, Massa will be accompanied by the Ministry’s chief adviser, Leonardo Macdur; the person in charge of the Legal and Administrative Secretariat of the portfolio, Ricardo Casal, and the director of INDEC, Marco Lavagna.
Sergio Massa in Washington: the agenda for Tuesday the 22nd
Meeting with Anna Bjerde Managing Director of Operations, World Bank.
Meeting with Ilan Goldfjn IDB President.
meeting Jay Shambaugh y Michael Kaplan of the US Treasury.
Dinner with US officials.
Sergio Massa in Washington: the agenda for Wednesday 23
Meeting with Brian Nichols government official of Joe Biden for Latin American affairs.
Meeting with Kristalina Georgieva.
The expansion of disbursements, Massa’s objective with the IMF
From Massa’s environment, who is also in the middle of the electoral campaign for the October elections, they anticipated that the objective of the visit is “seek to negotiate» an extension of disbursements for 7,500 million dollars.
The approval or not of these funds It will be defined in the vote that will take place on Wednesdayamong the main representatives of the multilateral credit organization.
The advance, in case of obtaining the green light, will arrive following the recent choices STEP y a tough week for the country’s economyaffected by the devaluation of the official exchange rate, which according to the same minister, It was an imposition of the IMF.
In this context, inflation would have skyrocketed once more, following a slight slowdown in previous months, and threatens to climb to double digits in Augustaccording to the first estimates of private and consultants.
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