LaGarde focuses on equity for all in the IMF (AFP)

WASHINGTON (AFP) - new IMF Chief Christine Lagarde has promised equal treatment for all countries and urged Greek politicians to unite behind an austerity plan as she took the head of the crisis lender world Wednesday.

The former French Finance Minister also promised the Monetary Fund International would continue to weigh the social issues such as unemployment in its difficult programs to financially ruined economies and would be more open to dissenting opinions of policy.

LaGarde, who replaces compatriot Dominique Strauss-Kahn, expressed concerns regarding the "unequal" recovery of the financial crisis of 2008-09, on sovereign debt unsustainable in the euro area and elsewhere, and the impact of inflation "imported" into the world's poorest countries.

"Impartiality, playground are the words that you will hear say me again", Lagarde said at a press conference on his second day as Director General.

"We must never lose sight of what we are about... to help restore stability where there is instability,"she says."."

The first woman to lead the Fund, Lagarde arrived Tuesday in the concerns that it would be too focused on Europe as the crises in the Portugal and Greece continue to turn.

She dismissed questions that it could carry an ideological or geopolitical view fixed problems will have to deal with.

"No one should be affected with a particular label," she said. "I think that you have to judge people by what they do."

But Lagarde said the eurozone crisis is an urgent matter and that the IMF Board will meet Friday on releasing a new slice of rescue euro ($160 billion) Union European-IMF 110 billion to Athens.

It urges the political parties in the Greece to get behind the difficult austerity program dictated to Athens in relief.

"I hope that all political parties can be properly inspired by the examples of political parties in Ireland, by political parties to the Portugal," she said in his press conference of the beginnings of the Fund.

"It comes at a time that political party rivalries should be cancelled when it is in the interest of the country," she said.

With the IMF under the criticism that it is always, 65, led by a European - through a pact with Washington - Lagarde allowed the possibility that its fund could create a third Deputy, Managing Director for a person to one of the emerging economic powers.

These months there is speculation such a position and that this could go to someone in China now world's second largest economy.

"We have these tectonic plates that move at the moment, and which must be reflected in the composition of governance and employment to the Fund," she said.

Counsel for 55 years replaces Strauss-Kahn, who resigned may 18 against allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman of House Hotel in New York.

Arrest of Strauss-Kahn cast a cloud over the IMF since, but since then prosecutors admitted deep doubts about the credibility of the accuser and New York newspapers reported this week that the case could soon be abandoned.

LaGarde has refused to comment on specifically in the case, but he said the media should "respect" the principle of the presumption of innocence.

"I think that the presumption of innocence is something that is more popular in the world," she said.

She said that she would be keep up injection of Strauss-Kahn of social issues such as job creation in the plans of the Fund to help countries to restructure their finances.

"Clearly the employment is a key issue...".to determine a stable social chemistry of a society, "she said."

But Lagarde to rebuild the image of the Fund after Strauss-Kahn, who was respected for its policies but which matters of personal conduct raised on ethical standards.

The married Strauss-Kahn was sentenced by the Council for a liaison with an economist of the IMF, and the media have characterized since this type of behavior as common to the Fund.

In May the IMF announced new standards of ethics for internal relations and sexual harassment, and he expanded the ethics for staff training.

"I will be the ethics training program," said Lagarde. "I look forward to it."