The Minister of Economy, Silvina Batakiswill be received next Monday in Washington by the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgievadvanced official sources.
The ambassador to the United States, Jorge Arguelloworked on the agenda that the minister will develop in the capital of the United States, where the official will also hold meetings with officials from the Treasury, the World Bank, Wall Street investors and directors of international companies.
“Minister Silvina Batakis is going to arrive in Washington on Sunday afternoon, and then we are immediately going to have a working meeting at the Embassy”The Argentine ambassador to the United States, Jorge Argüello, told Télam.
“On Monday morning, high officials from the United States Treasury will receive it, then authorities from the International Monetary Fund will do the same, and finally executives from the World Bank,” the diplomat explained.
“The most important meeting is the one to be held at the IMF, where Kristalina Georgieva will receive it on Monday at noon,” Argüello added.
The ambassador pointed out that “President Alberto Fernández, on the basis that the meeting with President Joseph Biden is postponed for a few days, instructed me to put together an intense agenda for the Minister of Economy, and it is armed”he remarked.
Argüello, when giving details of the agenda, specified that “on Tuesday we are going to have a working breakfast with investors and analysts from Wall Street, who will come to Washington, at the Argentine Embassy; and later we are going to have a meeting at the US Chamber of Commerce a round with the main North American companies that have investments in Argentina”.
“After that, Minister Batakis will maintain a series of bilateral meetings with the authorities of the Google, Chevron, Amazon and General Motors companies,” the diplomat concluded.
The meeting with the President
The trip to Washington was one of the topics addressed in the meeting that the minister held with the president Alberto Fernandez in the office of the head of state at Government House, in which the head of the Central Bank was also present, Miguel Pesce.
The head of the Chamber of Deputies, Serge Massaalso approached Casa Rosada to meet with the Secretary General of the Presidency, Julio Vitobello, to collaborate with the design of that minister’s agenda.
In the meeting between Fernández, Batakis and Pesce, economic measures were also analyzed that could be announced “between now and Monday,” an official close to the president told Télam.
Meanwhile, after 5 p.m., the foreign minister santiago cafiero entered Balcarce 50 to chat with the President and the minister.
Batakis left Casa Rosada at 5:47 p.m., Massa left at 6:37 p.m. and Pesce at 6:57 p.m. None made public statements.
This will be the first meeting that Batakis and Georgieva will have personally after the virtual contact they had on July 6, after the official was sworn in as the new head of the Palacio de Hacienda.
Dialogues with the IMF
On Wednesday, July 6, Minister Batakis held a virtual meeting with the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, in which both agreed to continue working together to promote macroeconomic stability on the path of growth.
“In a framework of trust, we had a fruitful conversation with Georgieva and we look forward to continuing to have a positive dialogue,” Batakis said at the time.
Georgieva, for her part, said that the communication she had with the new Economy Minister was “very good” and that she hopes to “continue our constructive collaboration” to achieve the objectives.
“Very good call with Minister Silvina Batakis today to discuss the implementation of the Argentina program. We look forward to continuing our constructive collaboration to promote economic stability and inclusive growth in a very challenging global environment,” Georgieva said through the account of the IMF on the social network Twitter.
Last week, after the announcements made by the minister, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) maintained that the economic measures are “consistent” with the objectives of the program that the multilateral organization signed with Argentina last March.
The Director of Communications of the Fund, Gerry Rice, during the press conference given on Thursday of the previous week, highlighted that “the minister recently and publicly reiterated her commitment to the implementation of the program supported by the Fund and the agreed objectives of the program” .
After which he added: “The measures announced by the minister are consistent with the objectives of the program that were agreed to strengthen macroeconomic stability and begin to address the deep-seated challenges of Argentina.”
The announcement of Batakis’s trip to Washington was made known this afternoon after the bilateral meeting that President Alberto Fernández and his counterpart from the United States, Joe Biden, were going to hold next Tuesday was postponed due to the coronavirus situation in the country. American president.
