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Asked
Mozambique's
Prez If IMF
Arrived, Now
IMF Will Dec
1-12
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
November 28 --
When
Mozambique's
President
Filipe Jacinto
Nyusi came to
address
journalists at
the UN back on
September 21,
he spoke only
in Portuguese
and said he
would take no
questions at
all, in any
language.
Inner City
Press shouted
out, did the
IMF mission
get to
Mozambique
today?
Filipe Jacinto
Nyusi came
back to the
microphone and
he did not say
“Yes.” Beyond
the Vine video
here. Instead
he called the
IMF arriving,
or not
arriving, when
they said they
would to look
into
undisclosed
loans a mere
detail. But is
it?
Now on
November 28,
the IMF has
put out this
statement:
"A mission led
by Mr. Michel
Lazare, IMF
Mission Chief
for
Mozambique,
will visit
Maputo from
December 1 to
December 12,
2016 to
initiate
discussions
with the
Mozambican
authorities on
a new program.
These
discussions
will continue
in the first
part of 2017.
In September
2016 the
authorities
requested the
Fund to resume
discussions on
financial
support as
soon as
possible. As
indicated at
the time (See
PR N0 16/436
of September
29, 2016), a
solid track
record of
implementation
of sound
macroeconomic
policies and
an effective
initiation of
the audit
process in the
near term
would help to
create the
conditions for
a possible
resumption of
program
discussions
with the IMF.
Since then,
these
conditions
have been met,
opening the
way to the
upcoming
mission."
While
in the
US,
Filipe Jacinto
Nyusi spoke to
Mozambicans in
Houston, Texas
-- usually a
stop over for
foreign
leaders for
health reasons
- and met the
IMF in DC.
Back on
September 15,
Inner City
Press
submitted to
the IMF
questions on
Zimbabwe and
South Sudan.
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