No consensus among finance chiefs at IMF talks due to Ukraine war

Washington (AFP) April 21, 2022

The International Monetary Fund ended its semi-annual gathering of global finance chiefs without a consensus for the first time in its history on Thursday, a sign of the strains created by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The war and the raft of sanctions on Moscow have endangered the global recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and threatened global cooperation. "This meeting has obviously n