IMF WORKS OUT PROGRAMME OF COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA FOR 2001








WASHINGTON, March 13. /From RIA Novosti correspondent/. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is working out a programme of cooperation with Russia for 2001, above all in the sphere of structural reforms, said director of the IMF external relations department Thomas Dawson.


	According to him, a more long-term programme may be worked out later but no agreement was reached on this question so far. At the same time, Dawson stressed, the elaboration of the long-term programme is possible as a direction of the further cooperation between the IMF and Russia.


	Shortly before, vice-premier and finance minister of Russia Alexei Kudrin pointed out that the programme of cooperation between Russia and the IMF for the current year was practically agreed upon. According to him, at the present time technical questions are being finalised with the IMF office in Moscow.


	Kudrin also stressed that when the sides approve of the programme of cooperation for the current year the work of coordinating the three-year programme of cooperation will begin.