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Transcript of IMF Briefing
February 25, 2021
MR. RICE: Good morning everyone, and welcome to this press briefing on behalf of the International Monetary Fund. I m Gerry Rice of the Communications Department. And as usual, our briefing this morning will be embargoed until 10:30 a.m. That s Washington time.
Nice to see a lot of colleagues online this morning. Good to have you with us, and I ll take questions on WebEx, and I ll take questions online as they come in. I hope everyone is keeping safe and well these days.
Let me just make a couple of announcements and we ll get right to it. Tomorrow of course, February 26, the Managing Director of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva will, as always, participate in the G20 meeting that is being held. That s the meeting of the finance ministers and the central bank governors, being held tomorrow under the leadership of Italy. Italy is leading the G20 this year, has the presidency. And that meeting will be h