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Kenya's government spokesperson, Isaac Maigua Mwaura, admitted to the BBC that the ETA had "teething problems" but said that they will "smoothen with time".

Schaffner said he expects some of the wrinkles in the rollout to smoothen out over time.

Chinese authorities "are simply smoothening the cycle. They want to avoid herding behaviour. They want to avoid a scenario where the market feels that they might be losing control. And so they're just using different administrative tools to smoothen price action," Mathur said.

They are also expected to talk about the so-called Atlantic Declaration — the arrangement well short of a trade deal announced in Washington last month - that aims to smoothen trade, to a degree at least, between the US and UK.

Wickremesinghe has set a goal of finalising debt talks by September, which, if successful, would smoothen the release of a second tranche of IMF funding due by October.