21.10.2019

Minister of Finance Vladislav Goranov met with the new IMF Managing Director and Chair of the Executive Board Kristalina Georgieva. The meeting was held during the regular annual meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund conducted in the period 18 – 20 October 2019 in Washington, USA.

This is their first official meeting after Kristalina Georgieva was selected to head the IMF on 25 September 2019. They discussed the global economic development and the possibilities to promote it, as well as the priorities in the area of economic policy at global level to ensure stronger and sustainable growth.

Minister Goranov also met with Axel van Trotsenburg, the World Bank Managing Director of Operations, who assumed the position of Kristalina Georgieva at the Bank. During the meeting, the almost-three-decade-long partnership between Bulgaria and the World Bank was given lofty praise. Points of discussion were also the possibilities to improve the status of our country in the World Bank Group, including by means of donor involvement in the International Development Association.   

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