Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration and Minister of Science and Technological Development Bozidar Djelic stated yesterday that the Serbian delegation at the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank is trying to secure maximum support of these financial institutions for the upcoming period. Djelic, who is heading the Serbian delegation at the meeting in Washington, underlined that Serbia’s request to the World Bank is well known – in the period from 2011 to 2014, it wants to receive funds that will not be smaller than the total amount of repayments Serbia has to make for the period in question.
The Deputy Prime Minister explained that Serbia should not be a net- financier of the World Bank, but rather must be on a positive zero between what it is paying back as old debts from the times of socialism and the fact that some new loans have been taken. That means that we are asking for nothing less than the package Serbia received for the previous four years, which is $900 million, Djelic said and added that the Serbian government has still not taken the position regarding cooperation with the IMF for the period after April 2011.
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