(May 19, 2003) This is the latest version of a draft resolution introduced by the United States in the U.N. Security Council. Britain and Spain are co-sponsors.
U. S. secures commitment from Group of Eight countries to ease Iraq’s path to recovery
(May 19, 2003) The United States on Saturday secured a commitment from the world’s wealthiest nations and Russia not to demand that Iraq begin paying off its huge debts before 2005, easing the country’s path to recovery.
G-8 agrees to wait on Iraqi debt
(May 19, 2003) China and Russia, two of five members of the UN Security Council with veto power, have expressed major reservations about the U.S. draft resolution on ending sanctions and also said the fate of the text depended on working out the debt problem.
Lesotho corruption
(May 19, 2003) A National Public Radio report on the historic foreign aid-related corruption court case unfolding in the remote South African kingdom of Lesotho.
Ministers agree Iraq needs more time over debt
(May 18, 2003) Iraq should not have to service its debts until the end of next year at the earliest, finance ministers of the leading developed economies agreed at their meeting in Deauville, France, at the weekend.
Kein Schuldenerlaβ für Irak
(May 18, 2003) According to German Minister of Finance, Hans Eichel, he and his G-8 colleagues agreed in Deauville, France on Saturday, that they are not going to relieve any of Iraq’s debt.
A new Paris Club approach to debt restructuring
(May 17, 2003) The Paris Club of official creditors is a central element of the existing framework for crisis resolution. In the context of the current efforts to make the resolution of crises more orderly, timely and predictable, the Paris Club can make a contribution.
More turbine trouble as foreign experts cancel trip: report
As Three Gorges project officials scramble to keep the SARS virus away from the dam site, a Chinese newspaper reports that foreign experts who were to have helped install the first of the scheme’s giant turbines have cancelled their trip to China.
Dam inspectors from Beijing given a wide berth
Experts from Beijing taking part in a final inspection before the Three Gorges reservoir is filled next month are being handled with special care by project officials desperate to prevent a local outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome.
The delicate debt problem
(May 15, 2003) Russia and, incidentally, its allies have found themselves in an awkward situation. For the sake of maintaining their reputation they should cancel Iraq’s debts and show the world that they are genuinely concerned about the fate of the Iraqi people.
Snow to ask for repatriation of Iraqi assets at G-8 meeting
(May 15, 2003) U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow will ask finance ministers of the world’s major industrialized countries meeting May 17-18 in France to aggressively search for illegal assets of the Saddam Hussein regime and repatriate them to the Iraqi people.
Russia: Powell says Iraq’s debt to Moscow will be ‘taken into account’
(May 15, 2003) In an interview on Ekho Moskvy radio, Powell said some of Iraq’s debt will have to be refinanced or rescheduled but he said the new Iraqi government, when it comes into office, will "take into account" its debt obligations to Moscow.
Interview with U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on Echo Moskvy Radio
(May 15, 2003) This is the U.S. State Department’s transcript of an interview U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell gave on Echo Moskvy Radio in Moscow, Russia.
Colin Powell: Iraq will recognize its debt to Russia
(May 15, 2003) U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed confidence that a new Iraqi government will recognize Iraq’s debts to Russia in full.
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