The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, met Thursday with the director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, in Washington, the headquarters of the agency, to talk about the stabilization and growth plan that the South American country negotiates with the organization.
“Today I received President @jmilei at the IMF to talk about the stabilization and growth plan of Argentina, which is giving significant results. Our teams continue to work constructively in pursuit of a new program with the IMF, ”Georgieva wrote in his X account.
Last December, the IMF confirmed that negotiations with Argentina for a new financial program, after the authorities of that country expressed “formally” their interest.
At the beginning of the month, Milei said that Argentina is very close to closing a new agreement with the IMF, which its nation owes about 40,000 million dollars (more than 38,100 million euros).
As explained by Milei, the program includes new disbursements that will be used to cancel debt with the Central Bank, which, according to its vision, will strengthen the balance of the monetary entity without increasing the total indebtedness of the country.
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Milei traveled with his sister Karina, general secretary of the Presidency; The Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, the spokesman, Manuel Adorni, and the Foreign Minister, Gerardo Werthein, as well as with the representative of Argentina before the IMF, Leonardo Madcur, according to the Argentine newspaper the chronicler.
Kristalina Georgieva and Milei have already met in January in the US capital and agreed that negotiating teams work “expedited” in the characteristics of the new assistance program.
In March 2022, the then government of the Peronist Alberto Fernández (2019–2023) signed with the IMF an extended facilities program to refinance loans for about 45,000 million dollars that the agency had given Argentina in 2018, during the conservative government Mauricio Macri (2015–2019).
In its most recent quarterly report of global economic perspectives, which was published in January, the IMF kept the growth forecast of Argentina by 2025 in 5%.
With EFE information
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