TOKYO -- The International Monetary Fund hopes to complete rescue talks with Sri Lanka "as quickly as possible," Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Wednesday, hours before the crisis-hit South Asian nation elected a new president.
Speaking with Nikkei Asia in Tokyo, Georgieva said the fund was "very deeply concerned about the well-being of the people in Sri Lanka," which has been gripped by severe shortages of fuel, food and other essentials after its foreign reserves dried up.
