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It will have an advisory role and does not include financial assistance.

Visiting IMF mission chief James Roaf announced the deal on Wednesday.

According to the Serbian government, they discussed the a program called "The Policy Coordination Instrument," which will be signed with that financial institution.

The meeting on Tuesday at the Scientific and Technology Park was initiated by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, the government has announced.

The first in a series of meetings was organized to discuss ways to collaborate in order to increase the production of solutions that startup and innovation companies are developing, as well as support for market finding.

One way or another, the International Monetary Fund will remain committed to Greece, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde stated on Monday.

Speaking in Berlin after her meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the IMF chief added that the terms of the Fund's engagement in Greece will probably become clearer after June 21.

BBC - The International Monetary Fund has agreed to lend Argentina up to $50bn (£37.2bn) as the country seeks to bolster its struggling economy.

The three-year agreement must still be approved by the IMF board.

Argentina, which has been plagued by economic problems for years, asked for assistance from the IMF on 8 May after its currency hit an all-time low.

Besides some small steps of progress by Berlin, the meeting of the Washington Group and the session of the Euro Working Group ended on Thursday in Paris without any agreements on measures to ease Greece's debt, heightening the possibility that the International Monetary Fund will opt out of funding the Greek program.

Discussions continue on policies that could support the participation of the International Monetary Fund in the Greek program and the arrangement of the national debt, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said in Washington on Thursday, but stressed that "time is running very short" for a solution.

The 40th meeting of the Directors-General for Civil Protection of the EU, of the European Economic Area and of the Candidate Countries was held on 31 May and 1 June in Sofia. Representatives of the European Commission and the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU also took part in the meeting.

The International Monetary fund (IMF) will probably remain as a technical adviser in Greece's third bailout program and will not participate with funds, as time is running out to complete the administrational procedure, the country's representative in the IMF, Michalis Psalidopoulos, told the state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency.

The mission chiefs of Greece's creditors and the finance ministers of France, Germany and Italy will meet on Saturday morning with the aim of finding a way out of the impasse in talks between Berlin and the International Monetary Fund regarding Greek debt relief.