{"id":131839,"date":"2023-02-01T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T22:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131839"},"modified":"2023-02-01T15:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T22:35:20","slug":"chinas-financial-assurances-insufficient-for-imf-bailout-us-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/02\/01\/chinas-financial-assurances-insufficient-for-imf-bailout-us-official\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s financial assurances insufficient for IMF bailout \u2013 US official"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>US Under-Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, has stated that the United States would also like to see an agreement by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Sri Lanka as quickly as possible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0da0\u0dd3\u0db1\u0dba \u0daf\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dca \u0dab\u0dba \u0dc3\u0dc4\u0dad\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dba\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0dbd\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0da7 \u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 \u0dba\u0db1\u0daf\u0dda.. \u0d85\u0db8\u0dd9\u0dbb\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc0\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0d85\u0db1\u0dad\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dd4 \u0d85\u0d9f\u0dc0\u0dba\u0dd2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RjZsAsjrM2I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on the matter, however, the visiting US official noted that China\u2019s offer pertaining to their financial assurances thus far remain insufficient, adding that the IMF needs to see credible and specific assurance that matches their standard on debt restructuring prior to moving forward with an agreement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka is currently awaiting board approval from the IMF pertaining to the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) of USD 2.9 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana US Under-Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, has stated that the United States would also like to see an agreement by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Sri Lanka as quickly as possible.&nbsp; Speaking on the matter, however, the visiting US official noted that China\u2019s offer pertaining to their financial assurances thus far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imf-bailout-package"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131839","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=131839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}