Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has met with IMF officials James Roaf and Daehaeng Kim.
The meeting in Belgrade on Thursday came in preparation for a revision of the precautionary arrangement in place between the Serbian government and the international financial institution.
Representatives of the IMF delegation “welcomed the positive results of the government of Serbia in the first four months of this year, the maintained macroeconomic stability, and above all the results concerning the deficit below the planned level,” the government said in a statement.
The meeting “focused on the economic program of a new government, while other topics included reform of the public administration and public companies and solving the privatization of 11 companies in the restructuring that are designated as subjects of strategic importance, with special emphasis on RTB Bor, PEU Resavica and Pertohemija.”
The meeting also discussed “the difficult reforms ahead of the new government as well as those obligations that have not been fulfilled in the rationalization of the public sector.”
Source; B92
