IMF
Says
Hungary's
Fillegi Will
Not Meet
Management, of
CB,
Philippines
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
March 8 --
While
Hungarian
minister Tamas
Fellegi says
in
his upcoming
visit to the
International
Monetary Fund
in Washington
he will "meet
with
management,"
when Inner
City Press
asked
IMF spokesman
Gerry Rice on
Thursday, Rice
said "no
meeting with
management is
anticipated,"
only with the
mission chief.
Inner
City Press
asked where
things stand,
including on
proposed
amendments to
Hungary's
Central Bank
law. Rice said
the IMF is
looking for
"sustained
commitment on
major policy
issues before
proceeding
with discuss
on a
program...
including the
issue of the
Central Bank
law."
While
most
questions
taken at the
biweekly IMF
briefing
concerned
Greece, Inner
City Press and
several others
also asked
about Egypt.
Asked about
the
impact of the
rift between
Egypt and the
US about the
non-governmental
organization
workers, Rice
claimed "we
are
international
financial
institution of
187 countries,
not effected
by
bilateral
relations
among two
member
countries."
Even if one is
the US, with
its quota and
voting
strength?
Footnotes:
the
IMF by
deadline left
two of Inner
City Press'
question
unanswered:
South
Sudan
has cited the
IMF as
supporting its
oil transfer
fee offer to
Sudan of 69
cents a
barrel. Has
the IMF played
a role in this
fee
negotiation,
and this
price?
Senegal's
actual
growth rate
has recently
been measured
as barely one
half of
what the IMF
estimated. Was
the IMF wrong?
Or what
happened?
And
on an IMF
conference
call this week
when Inner
City Press
asked if the
IMF's
mission to the
Philippines
considered
charges that
the Central
Bank
there may have
leaked the
bank records
of Chief
Justice Renato
Corona, the
answer was
that it hadn't
been
considered...
yet. Watch
this site.
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