Press Release No. 17/139

Statement by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Greece

April 21, 2017

Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today after a meeting with Greece’s Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos:

“I met today with Minister Tsakalotos and his team. We had constructive discussions in preparation for the return of the mission to discuss the two legs of the Greece program: policies and debt relief.”