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  "title": "Statement by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Greece",
  "publication": "IMF News, April 21, 2017",
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  "summary": "Press Release No. 17/139",
  "publishDate": "2017-04-21",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Press Release No. 17/139\n- Date: April 21, 2017\n- Principal actor: Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)\n- Meeting counterpart: Greece’s Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos"
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      "heading": "Meeting outcome and purpose",
      "content": "- “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.”\n- Preparatory focus: return of the IMF mission to discuss:\n  - policies (first leg)\n  - debt relief (second leg)"
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      "heading": "Contact / Media relations",
      "content": "- IMF Communications Department\n- Media Relations, Press Officer: Andreas Adriano\n- Phone: +1 202 623-7100\n- Email: MEDIA@IMF.org\n\nStatement by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Greece — Press Release No. 17/139, April 21, 2017\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- Greece and the IMF\n- Press Releases\n- PRESS CENTER\n- https://www.imf.org/en/home\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2017/04/21/pr17139-statement-by-imf-managing-director-christine-lagarde-on-greece"
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    "Date: April 21, 2017",
    "Principal actor: Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)",
    "Meeting counterpart: 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.”",
    "Preparatory focus: return of the IMF mission to discuss:",
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    "Media Relations, Press Officer: Andreas Adriano",
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