## Statement by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Greece

_IMF News, April 21, 2017_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: April 21, 2017

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### Overview
- Press Release No. 17/139
- 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

### Meeting outcome and purpose
- “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:
  - policies (first leg)
  - debt relief (second leg)

### Contact / Media relations
- IMF Communications Department
- Media Relations, Press Officer: Andreas Adriano
- Phone: +1 202 623-7100
- Email: MEDIA@IMF.org

*Statement by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Greece — Press Release No. 17/139, April 21, 2017*

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