{"id":126110,"date":"2022-06-09T15:15:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T22:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=126110"},"modified":"2022-06-09T15:15:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T22:15:54","slug":"imf-plans-in-person-sri-lanka-mission-in-coming-weeks-for-policy-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/06\/09\/imf-plans-in-person-sri-lanka-mission-in-coming-weeks-for-policy-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF plans in-person Sri Lanka mission in coming weeks for policy talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy CNA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>LONDON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is planning a staff-level mission in the coming weeks to Sri Lanka &#8220;to engage on policy discussions on a programme&#8221;, the fund&#8217;s spokesman Gerry Rice said on Thursday (Jun 9) in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of the next mission will be to build on the technical discussions already held with Sri Lanka&#8217;s authorities in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The timing of a staff level agreement will depend in part on the strength of the policies that the authorities would promote&#8221;, Rice added during the fund&#8217;s regular media briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nation-island is in talks with the IMF for a loan package to help navigate its worst economic crisis in seven decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe requested on Wednesday to send a staff-level delegation to the crisis-hit country as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy CNA LONDON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is planning a staff-level mission in the coming weeks to Sri Lanka &#8220;to engage on policy discussions on a programme&#8221;, the fund&#8217;s spokesman Gerry Rice said on Thursday (Jun 9) in Washington. The goal of the next mission will be to build on the technical discussions already [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126110","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=126110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}