Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday said he had requested the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to send a staff-level delegation to the crisis-hit country as soon as possible to finalise a staff-level agreement.
"The prime minister explained that negotiations’ regarding bridging finance was reliant on Sri Lanka and the IMF concluding a staff-level agreement," Wickremesinghe's office said in a statement.
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Sri Lanka is in talks with the IMF for a loan package to help navigate its worst economic crisis in seven decades.
