Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva and President of the World Bank Group (WBG) David Malpass issued today a joint statement welcoming the Group of Twenty (G20)'s new agreement to ease burdens of debts through allowing the poorest countries to suspend repayment of official bilateral credit. In a message to the G20 leaders, the IMF Managing Director said that the International Monetary Fund urgently seeks to obtain USD 18 billion from the IMF new resources to reduce poverty and growth for the poorest countries in addition to discussing the possibility of assistance in using special drawing rights.
