At the close of his U.S. tour, Sergio Massa meets with the head of the IMF

The Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, meets this Monday with Monday with the head of the IMF, at the end of his tour of the United States, to close the second review of the agreement for the disbursement of US $ 4,100 million and analyze the future of the program. Before his meeting with Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the Treasury Palace held a working meeting with the members of the delegation that traveled to Washington: the Secretary of Economic Programming, Sergio Rubinstein; the president of the Central Bank (BCRA), Miguel Ángel Pesce; the director of Banco Nación, Silvina Batakis, and the director of the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec), Marco Lavagna.Also on the payroll are the directors of the BCRA Lisandro Cleri, Jorge Carrera and Germán Fledman; the chief of the economic cabinet, Leonardo Macdur, and the advisors of Minister Luis Alberto Trajtenberg and Gustavo Martínez Pandiani.Starting at 11 a.m. on Monday, the official will hold a working meeting with three important officials in the U.S. Treasury Department: Michael Kaplan, assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs; and Andy Baukol, Undersecretary of International Affairs.Later, at 2 p.m., the leader of the Renovator Front will go to the headquarters of the Monetary Fund to meet with the director of that organization. In his tour of North America, the head of the Treasury unlocked a loan for 3,000 million dollars: $ 1,200 million before the end of the year, which will go to the coffers of the Central Bank, to strengthen reserves; the remaining $1.8 billion, meanwhile, will come in next year. In Argentina, meanwhile, the ‘soybean dollar’ allowed the BCRA to accumulate 1020 million dollars during the last week.

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