{"id":238593,"date":"2022-09-29T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imf-fmi.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/statement-by-international-monetary-fund-imf-managing-director-kristalina-georgieva-on-meeting-with-president-lazarus-mccarthy-chakwera-of-the-republic-of-malawi?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-09-29T16:08:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T14:08:01","slug":"statement-by-international-monetary-fund-imf-managing-director-kristalina-georgieva-on-meeting-with-president-lazarus-mccarthy-chakwera-of-the-republic-of-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/statement-by-international-monetary-fund-imf-managing-director-kristalina-georgieva-on-meeting-with-president-lazarus-mccarthy-chakwera-of-the-republic-of-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Meeting with President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera of the Republic of Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/cdddc1899b9052b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/cdddc1899b9052b\" alt=\"International Monetary Fund (IMF)\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/cdddc1899b9052b\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=219142&amp;press_source=International Monetary Fund (IMF)\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>IMF Director Kristalina Georgieva met with President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera of Malawi and issued the following statement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was very pleased to welcome President Chakwera at IMF Headquarters today. We had a very thoughtful and productive discussion on the difficult economic situation facing Malawi. I was impressed by the President&rsquo;s unwavering commitment to forge ahead with ambitious reform efforts to help improve the lives of the Malawian people and to firmly restore macroeconomic stability, including tackling unsustainable public debt.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I reiterated to the President the Fund&rsquo;s resolute support for his country and for the people of Malawi. In this regard, the IMF&rsquo;s staff is working steadfastly with the President&rsquo;s economic team with a view to the IMF staff team visiting Malawi very soon to discuss next steps and explore options to address Malawi&rsquo;s immediate financing needs and support its reform program. We agreed that tackling the country&rsquo;s economic challenges effectively calls for a concerted effort by all stakeholders, including the support of the international community.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of International Monetary Fund (IMF).<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo IMF Director Kristalina Georgieva met with President Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera of Malawi and issued the following statement. &ldquo;I was very pleased to welcome President Chakwera at IMF Headquarters today. We had a very thoughtful and productive discussion on the difficult economic situation facing Malawi. I was impressed by the President&rsquo;s unwavering commitment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-238593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/statement-by-international-monetary-fund-imf-managing-director-kristalina-georgieva-on-meeting-with-president-lazarus-mccarthy-chakwera-of-the-republic-of-malawi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}