U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012.  REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov  (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels fly over the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan as part of the 25th annual Fleet Week celebration in New York, May 23, 2012.  REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY ANNIVERSARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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IMF and Hungary agree on package to bolster economy

WASHINGTON | Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:27pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Sunday it had reached a broad agreement with Hungary on a set of policies, backed by substantial financing, to stabilize the Central European country's economy.

"A substantial financing package in support of these strong policies will be announced when the program is finalized in the next few days," IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in a statement. "Participants will include the IMF, the EU, and some individual European governments, together with regional and other multilateral institutions," he added.

He did not disclose how much financing was involved.

(Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; editing by Todd Eastham)

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