WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on Thursday the global economic crisis still had "long months" to go before it was finished.
"Despite some red lights and green lights ... our belief is the crisis is far from over," Strauss-Kahn told a press conference on the eve of a regular spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund.
There are "still long months of economic distress in front of us," he said, despite some evidence of economic stability due to the impact of powerful stimulus measures undertaken by authorities.
But he reiterated the IMF's forecast the world economy would recover in the "first semester" of next year. (Reporting by Alister Bull; Editing by James Dalgleish)