The
International Monetary Fund (IMF) has restored the position of its resident
representative in Belarus
after a four-year break, BelaPAN reported. Nataliya
Kolyadina, a former senior economist at the IMF European Department, entered
upon the duties of the Fund’s resident representative in Belarus on April 6.
The IMF withdrew its resident representative from Belarus in 2005, a year after the
country’s government announced that it would no longer borrow from the Fund.
According to Kolyadina, a team of IMF experts will stay in Belarus
between April 29 and May 13 to study the implementation of the
conditions that the Fund tied to its loan. The delegation will be led
by Chris Jarvis, the new chief of the IMF mission to Belarus.
