The in charge of relations with multilateral organizations and head of INDEC, Marco Lavagnaand the head of advisers to the Palacio de Hacienda, Leonardo Madcurformally began this Thursday the technical meetings in the French capital to close the technical agreement between Argentina and the Paris Club.
This was confirmed to Télam by official sources, who indicated “that the technical mission is of a reserved nature” Y is currently in the French capital with the counterpart, Emmanuel Moulin’s teamthe director general of the Treasury of his country and president of the Paris Club.
Later, the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, will travel to the same city “at the end” of the negotiations to seal with Moulin the renegotiation of more than US $ 2,000 million remaining debt and accumulated interest so far in 2022.
In October, Massa made great strides in Washington in negotiations with the Paris Club, during a meeting with Moulin.
“The agreement is almost closed. There are very good prospects,” Massa told Télam and a group of journalists at the end of one of the meetings of the economic team in the United States, within the framework of the annual meeting of the Monetary Fund. International (IMF) and the World Bank.
Argentina’s objective is to negotiate a refinancing of the debt of approximately US$ 2,400 million based on an extension of the repayment terms, a reduction in the interest rate, which is currently 9% per year, and the incorporation into said agreement of the US$ 430 million already paid in two payments in February 2022 and July of 2021.
