Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday attended the IMF - World Bank Annual Meetings 2019 on Friday where she called for ‘concerted action’ to mitigate the disruption on account of synchronous slowdown and to invoke the spirit of multilateralism for global growth. Sitharaman led the Indian delegation to the Annual Meetings Plenary session of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group held in Washington DC on Friday. The Finance Minister is currently on an official tour to Washington DC to attend the Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank and other associated meetings. She also attended the 'Working Lunch Session' of the Development Committee (DC), the ministerial-level committee of the IMF and the World Bank. The Finance Minister held several bilateral meetings on the sideline of the main event and held discussions with Finance Minister of Russia, Anton Siluanov; Finance Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, Baktygul Jeenbaeva; Finance Minister of Switzerland, Ulei Maurer; the Australian Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg; and the Finance Minister of Maldives, Ibrahim Ameer.

Source: dna October 19, 2019 11:03 UTC