Dujovne ended his first day in Washington with the support of the US Treasury

Near Dujovne argued that Mnuchin was interested in the progress of the economic program and ratified the Minister of Mauricio Macri, with whom it maintains a close link, the firm support of the United States to the Argentine government. "We reviewed the support," they summarized Infobae.

The Treasury Department's conference focused on Argentina's macroeconomics, without going into the details of the situation. Dujovne explained to Donald Trump's manager why the government is convinced that the recession hit bottom in November and is now showing signs of positive change.

"I met the Argentine Minister of Finance, Nicolás Dujovne (and we talked about it), about the strength of his economic reform program and regional priorities," Mnuchin summed up on Twitter.

In addition, the Secretary of the Treasury thanked the Minister for Argentina's support to the candidacy of the current Under-Secretary of the Treasury. David Malpbad as president of the World Bank and then spoke at length about the crisis in Venezuela, a revealing question from the North American government officials.

Previously, Dujovne had held a "political" meeting with Lagarde and the organization's number two, David Lipton. As they told the US Treasury, it was a "cordial and strictly formal" meeting, in which there was no negotiation on a more flexible use of the IMF money, as was supposed, to give the Central Bank a greater firepower to stabilize trade at the launch of the campaign.

In a message issued by a spokesman for the agency shortly after the meeting, the IMF also ratified its support for the government's economic plan and praised official efforts to "promote its stabilization plan." "The strong and ongoing implementation of the power reform agenda will be crucial in laying the foundation for a stable economy and sustainable growth"he finished.

In a few weeks, the team of technicians led by Cardarelli will present the results of the third review of the program to the IMF's board of directors. to be listening agree with the Macri government. And a few days later, the Fund would make a new disbursement of about $ 10,700 million.

Dujovne 's day had started early with a series of meetings that the Minister had organized one after the other. In addition to meetings with Lagarde and Mnuchin, he also met with the head of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Morenoand made an in camera presentation to business people, investors from major banks, officials from various US agencies and academics interested in Argentina at a breakfast that he had shared with about thirty people from CSIS, a thinking group from Washington.

"It was a good opportunity to hear him explain the current situation in Argentina and he did it well, it was convincing"he confided Infobae One of the guests at breakfast. According to the source, there was a frank dialogue, and Dujovne answered several questions. The focus of the conversation was the progression of the economic plan and achieving the goal of fiscal balance. "He left a good impression," summed up the guest.