Argentine Finance Minister Jorge Remes Lenicov (R) meets John Taylor,
The United States Treasury's Under-Secretary for international affairs,
outside their respective booths at the Convention Center in Fortaleza,
during the Inter-American Development Bank annual meeting, March 10,
2002. Taylor said last Thursday that an Argentine pact to curb
provincial governments' deficits was an encouraging step in a bid to
achieve stability, but added that it must still be implemented. The
IADB is holding its 43rd Annual Meeting in Fortaleza to discuss new
policies and initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the
Argentine financial crisis high on the agenda. REUTERS/Jamil Bittar

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