(April 29, 2003) The idea to declare the hundreds of billions of dollars owed to foreign creditors as "odious debt" is being promoted by some conservatives in the Bush administration.

(April 29, 2003) Russia’s finance minister said that Moscow may be willing to consider a restructuring of Iraqi debts contracted by Saddam Hussein’s regime but stressed that the government opposed a complete write-off.

(April 29, 2003) If a country’s debt burden is exceptionally high, it is possible to declare what Americans call Chapter XI bankruptcy. Another is the old concept of odious debt that says that states should not be bound to repay odious debts run up by repressive regimes.

(April 28, 2003) The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) suggested Monday that the most likely result of negotiations on Iraq’s massive foreign debts will be a substantial write-off.

(April 27, 2003) Should Iraq become the first country to benefit from the doctrine of "odious debt"? Edmin Truman says "No" and gives four reasons for his decision.

(April 23, 2003) The best thing the French could do for the new Iraq would be to forgive its people their odious debts to French companies.

(April 22, 2003) Some critics worry that, based on their track record, the World Bank, IMF might do little good.

(April 22, 2003) The legal and moral basis of those sanctions, debts and contracts [that were imposed upon and executed by the odious and now defunct Baathist dictatorship of Saddam Hussein] went the way of the Hussein regime – they are moot, null and void.