WORLD BANK GROUP AND INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND  2003 Spring Meetings  APRIL 12–13, 2003    WASHINGTON, D.C.

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MONDAY, APRIL 7
8:00 a.m.	Press Credentials Pick-Up Opens	World Bank's H Building Auditorium (G Street entrance)
TUESDAY, APRIL 8
9:00 a.m.	Technicians Set-Up (arrangements need to be made in advance with the IMF's Media Relations Division (media@imf.org)).	IMF Headquarters (press room)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9
8:00 a.m.	Press Room Opens	IMF Headquarters (red and blue levels)
9:00 a.m.	World Economic Outlook press conference by Kenneth Rogoff, Counsellor and Director, Research Department Transcript View the Press Conference using Windows Media Player	Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters
THURSDAY, APRIL 10
9:00 a.m.	World Bank Group President James D. Wolfensohn Transcript View the taped press conference using Windows Media Player	Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters
10:30 a.m.	IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler Transcript View the taped press conference using Windows Media Player	Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters
FRIDAY, APRIL 11
TBA	Group of 24 Ministers	Meeting Hall
10:00 a.m.	World Bank Middle East and North Africa region press briefing by World Bank Vice President for the MENA region Jean-Louis Sarbib, MENA Chief Economist Mustapha Nabli and Iraq country director Joseph Saba.	IMF Headquarters, Room R-710
11:00 a.m.	Press Conference of African Finance Ministers and Governors of Central Banks: Mr. Charles Konan Banny, Governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), Mr. Benjamin Radavidson, Minister of Finance and Budget of Madagascar, Mr. Timothy T. Thahane, Minister of Finance from Lesotho, Mr. Joseph B. Dauda, Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone, Gerald M. Ssendaula, Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development of Uganda Transcript View the taped version of the Press Conference using Windows Media Player	Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters
3:30 p.m.	Press Conference: Chair of the Group of 24 Ministers, Mr. Fuad Siniora, Ministry of Finance Lebanon Communiqué Transcript View the taped version of the Press Conference using Windows Media Player	Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters
SATURDAY, APRIL 12
10:00 a.m.	Latin American Press Briefing, Mr. Anoop Singh, Director, Western Hemisphere Department	Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters
12:30 p.m.	International Monetary and Financial Committee of the Board of Governors Communiqué - Español - Français	Meeting Hall
5:45 p.m.	Press Conference: International Monetary and Financial Committee Chairman Gordon Brown and IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler Transcript View a taped version of the press conference using Windows Media Player	Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters
SUNDAY, APRIL 13
9:00 a.m.	Press Conference: Ecuador's Current Relations with the IMF and the World Bank, Mr. Mauricio Pozo, Minister of Economy and Finance of Ecuador	Fairmont Hotel
9:00 a.m.	Development Committee Communiqué	Preston Auditorium
1:00 p.m.	Press Conference: World Development Indicators (WDI); World Bank Chief Economist Nick Stern Transcript View the Press Conference using Windows Media Player	Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters
3:00 p.m.	Press Conference: Development Committee Chairman Trevor Manuel and World Bank Group President James D. Wolfensohn Transcript View the Press Conference using Windows Media Player	Main Press Briefing Room, Room B-702, IMF Headquarters
TBA	Press Room Closes