Economy Minister Sergio Massa today held a meeting in Washington with the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Gita Gopinath, in which both evaluated the impact of the drought and agreed to “strengthen” the program that the country possesses with the organism.
“We had a very productive meeting with the deputy managing director of the IMF, Gita Gopinath, with whom we talked about the impact of the worst drought in Argentine history and we promised to continue working together to strengthen the program in this difficult scenario,” said Massa this tomorrow in a message posted on his Twitter account.
Meanwhile, the “number two” of the Fund highlighted the “good meeting” with the minister on the social network, and detailed the topics of the meeting in similar terms.
“We talked about the impact of the worst drought in Argentine history and we promised to continue working together to strengthen the program in this difficult scenario,” said Gopinath.
Yesterday, Massa held meetings in the US capital with various advisers to President Joe Biden and officials from multilateral credit organizations, within the framework of the spring meetings (boreal) of the IMF and the World Bank (WB).
Within this framework, he held work meetings with the candidate for president of the World Bank, Ajay Banga; the deputy director of the National Security Council of the United States, Michel Pyle; special adviser to President Joe Biden, Juan González; and the adviser to the president and director of International Economy Christina Segal-Knowles.
