WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will visit Argentina at the end of July, IMF spokesman Pierre Mejlak said on Wednesday.
The visit, announced earlier by Argentine Economy Minister Luis Caputo, will mark Georgieva’s first visit to the South American country in her current role, although she has held numerous meetings with Argentine officials elsewhere.
Mejlak said Georgieva would meet with Argentine President Javier Milei and Caputo during the short visit. He said the IMF chief had long planned to visit Argentina.
Caputo said on Monday the government expects to meet debt payments through 2027 with multilateral loans, privatizations and local bond issuance, while avoiding a return to international bond markets for now.
Argentina faces a foreign-currency debt test in 2027 – the year Milei has said he will seek re-election – with over $23 billion in foreign-currency principal payments due, or more than $32 billion including interest, according to IMF data.
The IMF is forecasting Argentina’s gross domestic product growth will drop to 3.5% in Argentina in 2026 from 4.4% last year, before rebounding to 4% in 2027.
(Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
