INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND and WORLD BANK GROUP

1999 Spring Meetings
APRIL 20–28    WASHINGTON, D.C.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Last updated April 28, 1999

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 TUESDAY, APRIL 20 
8:00 a.m. Press Room opens IMF Headquarters1
9:00 a.m. Press Conference
Michael Mussa, IMF Economic Counselor and
Director, Research Department
World Economic Outlook
Transcript		 IMF Meeting Hall2


 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 
9:00 a.m. Press Conference
Michel Camdessus,
Managing Director, IMF
Transcript		 IMF Meeting Hall


 THURSDAY, APRIL 22 
9:00 a.m. Press Conference
James D. Wolfensohn,
President
World Bank Group
Transcript
Streaming Video		 IMF Meeting Hall
2:00 p.m. IFC Press Briefing-Corporate Restructuring
Transcript		 IMF Auditorium (Red Level)


 FRIDAY, APRIL 23 
9:00 a.m. World Bank/IMF Press Briefing-HIPC
Transcript		 IMF Auditorium (Red Level)


 SATURDAY, APRIL 24 


 SUNDAY, APRIL 25 
10:00 a.m. Bank Press Briefing-Responding to the Crises
Transcript		 IMF 2-530


 MONDAY, APRIL 26 
8:00 a.m.
(Photo Pool)		 Group of 24 Ministers
10:00 a.m. Press Conference
Joseph Stiglitz, Senior Vice President
and Chief Economist, World Bank Group
World Development Indicators Report and CD-ROM
and World Bank Atlas
Transcript
2:30 p.m. Press Briefing
Jack Boorman, Directory, IMF Policy
Development and Review Department
International Financial Architecture,
Standards, Transparency, and CCL:
Progress to Date
Transcript		 IMF Multi-Purpose
Room3
4:30 p.m. Press Conference
Chairman, Group of 24 Ministers
G.L. Peiris, Minister for Constitutional
and Ethnic Affairs and Deputy Minister
of Finance, Sri Lanka
Communique		 IMF Multi-Purpose
Room3


 TUESDAY, APRIL 27 
8:00 a.m.
(Photo Pool)		 Group of 10 Ministers
Communique
 IMF Board Room
9:30 a.m.
(Photo Pool)		 Interim Committee
Chairman: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi,
Minister of Treasury, Budget
and Economic Programming,
Italy		 IMF Meeting Hall
8:00 p.m.
 Press Conference
Chairman, Interim Committee,
Managing Director, IMF
Communique
Transcript 		IMF Multi-Purpose
Room


 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 
9:00 a.m.
(Photo Pool)		 Development Committee
Chairman: Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda,
Minister of Finance,
Thailand
Communique
(Also available in French and Spanish)		 IMF Meeting Hall
10 a.m. Press Briefing
International Community Responds
to the Kosovo Crisis
Transcript		 IMF Multi-Purpose
Room3
10 a.m. Press Briefing
On Monetary and Financial Sector
Transparency Code
Stefan Ingves, Director
IMF Monetary and Exchange Affairs
Department		 IMF Multi-Purpose
Room3
3:45 p.m. Press Conference
Chairman, Development Committee,
and President, World Bank Group
Transcript		 IMF Multi-Purpose Room

Notes:
1The address of the Press Room is: IMF Headquarters, 700 19th Street NW, Washington, DC 20431.
2The address of the IMF Meeting Hall is: IMF Headquarters, 700 19th Street NW, Washington DC 20431.
3The address of the IMF Multi-Purpose Room is: IMF Headquarters, 700 19th Street NW, Washington DC 20431.