President meets US Treasury Secretary in Paris

COLOMBO (News 1st); US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen discussed Sri Lanka’s continued reforms under its IMF program.

This was when she met with Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on the sidelines of the international Summit for a New Global Financing Pact.

French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting world leaders including Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, as well as US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, to discuss new ways to raise climate financing.