Staff-level agreement delayed amid Middle East crisis, negotiations to continue: IMF

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday confirmed that its mission could not reach a staff level agreement (SLA) on the third review of the country’s $7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the second review of the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) despite considerable progress, and that negotiations would continue. In its ‘end of mission statement’, the IMF said its team, headed by Iva Petrova, held discussions with Pakistani authorities on the third revie...

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