Argentina will not modify $45 billion debt deal with IMF, finance minister says

FILE Photo – Demonstrators sit in the vicinity of the Countrywide Congress as the senate debates the government’s settlement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Buenos Aires, Argentina March 17, 2022. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian

BUENOS AIRES, April 23 (Reuters) – Argentine economic climate minister Martin Guzman said late on Friday that a $45 billion financial debt offer with the Intercontinental Monetary Fund will not be modified, next a assembly with IMF head Kristalina Georgieva.

“We are not likely to adjust the targets of the application with the IMF,” Guzman told area media.

The South American country’s centre-left Peronist govt led by President Alberto Fernandez struck a personnel-stage arrangement with the intercontinental financial institution at the starting of March to stay away from a default.

The offer lays out a fresh new timetable of financing in excess of a 30-month interval to replace a failed $57 billion method from 2018 that the grains-making state was not able to spend back right after a long time of economic downturn, spiraling inflation and funds flight

Nonetheless, Guzman cautioned with no supplying more particulars that there will be a alter in emphasis to emphasis on the social protection web due to the fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine which has triggered globally inflation.

Argentina has prolonged endured from incredibly superior inflation. However, the war has enhanced price surges in Argentina as properly as much of Latin The us. Argentina’s 2021 inflation strike above 50%.

Reporting by Maximilian Heath Enhancing by Andrea Ricci

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