Press Release No. 01/28

Press Release: IMF Releases Managing Director's statement on the Work Program of the Executive Board

June 8, 2001

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the first time has released the Statement by the Managing Director on the Work Program of the Executive Board. The semiannual document outlines the agenda of policy discussions of the Executive Board during the period leading up to the Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group and IMF in October 2001. Managing Director Horst Köhler's statement is available on the IMF website at http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/wp/2001/060601.htm

The Executive Board consists of the 24 officials appointed or elected by the IMF's 183 member countries with the Managing Director as Chairman. The Board meets regularly to assess developments at the national, regional, and global levels; to discuss policy issues concerning the international economic and financial system; and to decide on the IMF's loans to member countries.

Summaries of the work program have previously been released to the public semiannually since July 1999, most recently as News Brief No. 00/102.