France urges Paris Club moratorium on debt owed by tsunami-hit ...
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PARIS  - French President Jacques Chirac told his government to push for the Paris Club of creditor nations to put a moratorium on debt payments owed by countries hit by tsunamis in southeast Asia.
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PARIS/ROME  - Italy called on Group of Eight rich  nations on Thursday to discuss a joint response to the Indian  Ocean tsunami catastrophe as moves to grant debt relief to some  of the stricken countries gathered pace.
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PARIS, Jan 17 (IPS) - The richer nations have made much of the freeze  they have offered on debt repayments from tsunami-hit countries,  but many of the affected countries do not seem to want this  concession.
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World leaders meeting on Thursday to  discuss tsunami aid, debt relief and an Indian Ocean warning  system were told the waves' death toll could double to about  300,000 unless action was taken this week to prevent disease.
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NEW YORK/LONDON  - France's Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Thursday that the U.S. home loan crisis was a threat to world growth, while a Bank of Japan policy-maker said the recent market turmoil has been overdone.
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French President Jacques Chirac said the Paris Club of 19 creditor nations should delay debt- repayments by Indonesia and Somalia following the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunamis that have
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French President Jacques Chirac on Monday urged his government to "mobilize all means" to help millions of stricken people in tsunami-hit Asian countries.
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PARIS -- Rich creditor nations offered yesterday to let tsunami-hit countries halt repayments on billions of dollars of debt, possibly for as long as a year, the chairman of the Paris Club said.
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PARIS/BERLIN  - The Paris Club of creditor nations  agreed on Sunday to cancel 80 percent of the debt Iraq owes its  members, ending a trans-Atlantic dispute and probably setting  the framework for debt pardons from other creditors.
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The famous Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris, traditional site for the New Year&#39;s celebration, is to wear mourning Friday evening to pay tribute to victims in Asian tsunamis, announced Thursday the City Hall of Paris.
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The Paris Club of creditor nations, except for Russia, has agreed in principle to slash debts Iraq owes to the group by up to 80 percent, an official said Sunday.
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The world's richest nations are likely to agree to freeze debt repayments for countries devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami, and some countries may have all or part of their debt written off, Britain's ...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel called here on Monday for more transparency on international finance markets.
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Canada on Thursday put in place a unilateral debt moratorium for nations hit by the Asian tsunami catastrophe with "immediate effect," said Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew.
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French Prime Minister Francois Fillon on Monday warned that the country&#39;s public finances were in a &quot;critical&quot; state and that drastic action is needed.
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The Paris Club of creditor nations on Saturday was debating a plan to write off as much as 80 percent of the debts Iraq owes them, a key step in the United States' push to ease the financial burden on the nation as it tries to rebuild.
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SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale also announces further â¬2bn-plus write-down because of credit crunch