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IMF hopes for Tajikistan deal within months

ALMATY, Oct 21 (Reuters) The International Monetary Fund hopes to agree a new lending programme with Tajikistan within the next few months after seeing progress in talks with the Central Asian state, a Fund executive said on Friday.
"Discussions are under way and the key issue there is the banking sector," Juha Kahkonen, IMF Deputy Director for the Middle East and Central Asia department, said during a visit to the Kazakh financial hub Almaty.
"Progress has been made in the discussions and discussions will continue in the coming weeks and we hope the programme can be agreed in the coming months," he told Reuters.
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