{"id":124640,"date":"2022-04-23T14:16:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T21:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=124640"},"modified":"2022-04-23T14:16:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T21:16:45","slug":"fruitful-technical-talks-held-with-sri-lanka-on-loan-request-imf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/04\/23\/fruitful-technical-talks-held-with-sri-lanka-on-loan-request-imf\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fruitful\u2019 technical talks held with Sri Lanka on loan request &#8211; IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The International Monetary Fund said on Saturday that its staff held fruitful technical discussions\u201d with Sri Lankan authorities on the crisis-wracked country\u2019s request for an IMF-supported loan program this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fund said in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/News\/Articles\/2022\/04\/23\/pr22129-IMF-Team-Statement-on-Sri-Lanka?cid=em-COM-123-44677\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;that the discussions included the need for Sri Lanka to implement a credible and coherent strategy\u201d to restore macroeconoimc stability and to strengthen its social safety net and protect the poor and vulnerable during the current crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IMF team welcomed the authorities\u2019 plan to engage in a collaborative dialogue with their creditors,\u201d IMF Sri Lanka mission chief Masahiro Nozaki said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em><strong>Source: Reuters<\/strong><br>-Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The International Monetary Fund said on Saturday that its staff held fruitful technical discussions\u201d with Sri Lankan authorities on the crisis-wracked country\u2019s request for an IMF-supported loan program this week. The Fund said in a&nbsp;statement&nbsp;that the discussions included the need for Sri Lanka to implement a credible and coherent strategy\u201d to restore macroeconoimc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}