"I was encouraged by last week's announcements from the U.S. and China," Georgieva said at the opening press conference of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington. "Our meetings this week are an opportunity for all parties to make progress in moving from a trade truce to a trade peace."
It was Georgieva's first press conference at the meetings after she took over the helm of the IMF on Oct. 1 from Christine Lagarde, who was nominated head of the European Central Bank.
"This is extremely good news that the U.S. and China are talking to each other," the Bulgarian economist said when asked by Xinhua to comment on the trade negotiations between the world's top two economies. She added that the detente in China-U.S. trade tensions is shrinking the negative impact on global growth, "and you would not be surprised."
Georgieva, however, cautioned that the latest improvement is not good enough. "What we need is to reach not just truce. We need to have trade peace," she said.
"We need to go forward to a system that is enhanced and it is enforced so we can see trade to return to its role of an engine of the world economy," she added.
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