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Beirut: The new finance minister of debt-saddled Lebanon met on Saturday with an official from the International Monetary Fund for what he said was a “courtesy visit” and not bailout talks.
Ghazi Wazni’s meeting with IMF alternative executive director Sami Geadah came as Lebanon grapples with its worst economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.
The meeting served to “congratulate Lebanon on the formation of a new government,” Wazni said on Twitter afterwards.
He had told AFP earlier that it was “a courtesy visit... to get to know the IMF team”.
“The discussions will not focus on an economic rescue plan, which is being prepared (separately) inside government,” he added. (AFP)
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