Economy Minister Amado Boudou said that the Argentine Government "will not accept any conditions" on its economic policies, rejecting, in this way, an eventual revision of its accounts by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
"We didn't come here looking for a revision of Article IV, nor is it on the agenda of our trip," Boudou said in declarations to the press in Washington, where he is participating in the biannual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank and of a series of encounters with his counterparts of countries that members of the Group of 20 (G-20).
Boudou's words, divulged by the Press Office of the Economy Ministry, were made known after the IMF's Vice-president, John Lipsky, said that Argentina, as well as the rest of the entity's members, is obligated to allow a revision of its economy, and is expected to do it "in a reasonable time".
Boudou considered that the history of the link between Argentina and the IMF "doesn't begin in 2003 (with the government of Néstor Kirchner, but that) it goes back to Martínez de Hoz" during the 1976 dictatorship.
The official assured that "there are ministers that have carried out mistaken policies, claiming that it was an imposition of the IMF. Other times, it was the organism that boosted those policies against our country. All of this has generated a deterioration in our relationship".
"In this context, we must see what the economic revision implies (the application of Article IV) of the IMF," said the head of the Economy Ministry.
In this framework, "this Government will not accept any kind of conditions on its economic policies," the minister emphasized.
Boudou said that the revision by the organism could be done "as long as it's a technical revision, with the necessary volume of information".
Buenos Aires Herald
