[Imc-newsroom] Reuters:US backs IMF postponement

[Sehvilla]

This is the latest I've been able to find on the status of the IMF
meetings. They haven't been canceled yet but it looks more and more
likely.
		- Sehvilla

US Backs Postponing IMF/W.Bank Meeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States supports the postponement of the
annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (news - web sites) and
World Bank (news - web sites) set for the end of the month in Washington
in the wake of the terror attacks earlier this week, a U.S. official said
on Friday.

The official, who asked not to be named, said the IMF and the World Bank
may make an announcement about the meetings, which had been scheduled to
be held Sept. 29 and 30, later on Friday.

``The United States supports postponement of the meeting,'' the official
told Reuters.

The official also said there had been no decision about whether a meeting
of finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized countries --
also due to be held in Washington at month's end -- would go forward as
planned.

The IMF and World Bank meetings had already been scaled back to two days
because of the threat of violent protests by people who do not agree with
the policies of the institutions.

Officials at the bank and the fund, as well as the local police, have been
pushing for the meetings to be called off following the strikes in New
York and Washington on Tuesday.


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