{"id":107384,"date":"2017-05-04T15:12:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T15:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2017\/05\/04\/246244\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:29:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:29:09","slug":"armenia-would-like-to-start-new-program-with-imf-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2017\/05\/04\/107384\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia would like to start new program with IMF &#8211; minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, May 4. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> The government of Armenia would like to launch a new program of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Armenian finance minister Vardan Aramyan told reporters on Thursday, when commenting on the completion of the &#8220;Extended Fund Facility&#8221; program.<\/p>\n<p>He said over the three years the IMF provided Armenia with $100-110 million assistance. The last tranche under the program in the amount of 16 million SDR or $20 million will be transferred in June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not negotiating the launch of a new program, but have already conveyed our desire to IMF,&#8221; Aramyan said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the government of Armenia attaches special importance to the implementation of programs with the IMF in the context of reforms implemented as part of the program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Together with the program, the IMF is adopting a reform agenda that serves as a basis for developing further steps. Besides, we develop a joint macroeconomic forecast program, as well as approaches and steps to ensure a stable economic atmosphere in the medium term, which is the main precondition for attracting investments,&#8221; said Aramyan.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the government plans to return to this issue after September.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF Extended Fund Facility program, with a total value of 82.21 million SDR or $111.57 million, was approved on March 7, 2014. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Armenia would like to launch a new program of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Armenian finance minister Vardan Aramyan told reporters on Thursday, when commenting on the completion of the &#8220;Extended Fund Facility&#8221; program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,15917,14430,12713],"class_list":{"0":"post-107384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-imf-2","11":"tag-new-program","12":"tag-state-debt"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}