PARIS: France's Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici will meet Tuesday in Paris with US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, officials said, contrary to an earlier report that the talks had been cancelled, as the French government deals with a tax fraud scandal.
Moscovici is now set to meet with Lew, who is currently on a whistle-stop tour of eurozone leaders, at 1345 GMT at the US embassy in Paris, followed by a joint press conference, according to the US Treasury department's official schedule.
Moscovici also issued a statement confirming the afternoon meeting with Lew, and added that he also wanted to attend a question time in parliament Tuesday, expected to focus on the government's handling of the scandal over undeclared foreign bank accounts.
Earlier when the meeting with Lew appeared to have been cancelled, a member of Moscovici's entourage had said: "The minister considered that, given the (political) context, it is very important that he is with the prime minister during the government question time before the National Assembly."
<Center><b><i>Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2013</b></i></center>
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