SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 19 – When the
International Monetary Fund
addressed the Middle East,
Central Asia and the Caucuses
on October 19, Inner City
Press posed a question and got
an answer on each.
Inner City Press
asked the IMF's Jihad Azour,
Director of the Middle East
and Central Asia Department
about Nagorno Karabakh. Video
on YouTube, here.
Jihad
Azour cited
the IMF's
Technical
Assistant center
set for
Almaty,
Kazakhstan and
said the IMF
joins in calls
for a
ceasefire
(which have
been mouthed
by but not
followed up on
by the
UNresponsive
UN).
Inner City Press
asked asked, "What is the
IMF's assessment of the
turmoil in Kyrgyz Republic?
Can or will the IMF to do
anything to assist, including
on continued COVID-19 response
as well as debt to China /
Eximbank?"
His answer,
interim video here,
recounted the IMF's
pre-turmoil assistance to
Kyrgyzstan. here.
Inner City
Press also asked, "On Yemen,
what is the status of the use
of the new riyal banknotes
printed by the Central Bank in
Yemen, and any actions taken
by the IMF?" We'll have more
on this.
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