## Press Release: Joint Statement by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde and the Egyptian Authorities

_IMF News, April 21, 2013_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: April 21, 2013

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### Publication details
- Press Release No. 13/137
- April 21, 2013

### Meeting participants
- Christine Lagarde — IMF Managing Director
- Hisham Ramez — Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt
- Al-Mursi Hegazy — Finance Minister
- Ashraf Al-Araby — Minister of Planning and International Cooperation

### Joint findings and commitments
- The authorities and IMF staff "have made further progress in their discussions in Washington this weekend."
- The authorities "are firmly committed to addressing Egypt’s economic and financial challenges with the objective of restoring sustained and socially-balanced growth."
- The authorities "are already taking encouraging actions in this direction."
- "Work will continue with the objective of reaching agreement on an IMF Stand-By Arrangement to support the authorities’ national economic program in the coming weeks."

*https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2015/09/14/01/49/pr13137*

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