translated from Spanish: IMF: Dujovne meets Christine Lagarde

Nicolás Dujovne, Finance Minister, traveled to Washington and said today his meeting with the Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde. It was given to know the agenda of topics to be discussed at the meeting was planned for Thursday. In his meetings with Lagarde, of the IMF, Steve Mnuchin, Treasury Secretary North American, and Luis Alberto Moreno, head of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), will ratify the decision of the current Government to comply with the agreements with the IMF, as the deficit zero for this 2019.En a couple of weeks, since the IMF’s Executive Board will define if they approve 10,700 million dollars of the loan stand-by agreed during the financial crisis. On Tuesday Dujvone and Energía Secretary Gustavo Lopetegui, met with the Secretary of Energía de Estados Unidos Rick Perry in the framework of the annual Conference on energy organised by IHS Markit, in Houston, Texas.En this meeting spoke about the energy development initiatives taken by the Argentine Government, such as the construction of a new gas pipeline in Neuquén who became a public consultation and the programme of replacement of imports of Gas (RIG).

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