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  "title": "Managing Director Georgieva's Closing Remarks at the Sudan Conference",
  "publication": "IMF News, May 17, 2021",
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  "summary": "Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva's Closing Remarks at the Sudan Conference's Plenary Session on \"Delivering on Economic Promises and Moving Towards Sudanese Debt Forgiveness\"",
  "publishDate": "2021-05-17",
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      "heading": "Conference outcome and tone",
      "content": "- \"It has been an honor to be here at this conference to celebrate and foster Sudan’s return to the international community.\"\n- \"I am very encouraged by the very strong expressions of support heard from all participants.\""
    },
    {
      "heading": "Financing gap and donor contributions",
      "content": "- The day began \"with a financing gap to clear Sudan’s arrears to the IMF and deliver the IMF’s share of HIPC debt relief.\"\n- The financing gap was filled \"thanks to most welcome new grants from Saudi Arabia and France, complementing earlier pledges from the United States, the European Union, Italy, and Sweden.\"\n- Emphasis on the IMF’s role in delivering its share of HIPC debt relief."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Call for formal commitments and urgency",
      "content": "- Request: \"We still need IMF member countries to convert informal pledges of support for the financial package for Sudan into formal commitments.\"\n- Urgency stressed: \"I again urge every member country to do so urgently. We are down to the wire, but I know we will get there with your support.\""
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      "content": "- Date: May 17, 2021\n- IMF Communications Department, MEDIA RELATIONS\n- PRESS OFFICER: Nadya Saber\n- Phone: +1 202 623-7100\n- Email: MEDIA@IMF.org\n\nManaging Director Georgieva's Closing Remarks at the Sudan Conference — May 17, 2021, IMF Communications Department\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- https://www.imf.org/en/about/senior-officials/bios/kristalina-georgieva\n- Sudan and the IMF\n- France and the IMF\n- Italy and the IMF\n- Saudi Arabia and the IMF\n- Sweden and the IMF\n- United States and the IMF\n- Speeches\n- PRESS CENTER\n- https://www.imf.org/en/home\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2021/05/17/sp051721-closing-remarks-at-the-sudan-conference"
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    "\"I am very encouraged by the very strong expressions of support heard from all participants.\"",
    "The day began \"with a financing gap to clear Sudan’s arrears to the IMF and deliver the IMF’s share of HIPC debt relief.\"",
    "The financing gap was filled \"thanks to most welcome new grants from Saudi Arabia and France, complementing earlier pledges from the United States, the European Union, Italy, and Sweden.\"",
    "Emphasis on the IMF’s role in delivering its share of HIPC debt relief.",
    "Request: \"We still need IMF member countries to convert informal pledges of support for the financial package for Sudan into formal commitments.\"",
    "Urgency stressed: \"I again urge every member country to do so urgently. We are down to the wire, but I know we will get there with your support.\"",
    "Date: May 17, 2021",
    "IMF Communications Department, MEDIA RELATIONS",
    "PRESS OFFICER: Nadya Saber",
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    "Email: MEDIA@IMF.org",
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