Paris club decision to reduce Iraqi debt by 80 percent
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US President George W. Bush has welcomed the decision by the Paris Club of creditor nations to forgive 80 percent of Iraqi debt owed to its members.
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The US administration is expected to request $80bn extra for military  operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Major economic powers agreed Sunday to write off more than $31 billion in debt for Iraq in a deal that boosted U.S. efforts to help put the Iraqi economy back on its feet.
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Iraq's debts to the Paris Club of creditor nations will probably not be cut by much more than half, a source close to the German government said.
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PARIS/LONDON  - France will sell up to 12.1  percent of France Telecom in Europe's largest share placement  in four years, bringing as much as 5.75 billion euros ($6.95  billion) into state coffers as it strives to cut national debt.
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Paris - The Paris Club of creditor nations, with the exception of Russia, has reached an agreement in principle to slash debts Iraq owes to the group by up to 80%, a well-placed official said on Sunday.
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German officials said Saturday they have decided to forgive 80 percent of Iraq's $120 billion foreign debt, CNN reported.
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Iraq hopes to reach a debt forgiveness deal with leading creditor nations by the end of the year, and views as a "starting point" a proposal by France to initially relieve 50 percent of its debt, Iraq's Finance Minister said on Tuesday.
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More than a quarter of Iraq's foreign debt burden could be forgiven under a US-German proposal.
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The deficit figure of $427 billion includes part of an additional $80 billion that President Bush requested for Iraq.
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Four fifths of Iraq&#39;s foreign debts are to be written off, under a deal reached at the weekend. The country&#39;s interim government has been complaining that the level of its debt is hampering its reconstruction.
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The Paris Club of international creditors has agreed to cancel 80 percent of the debt Iraq owes member countries. Officials say the deal, brokered in Berlin, is worth about $33 billion.
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US President George Bush today applauded the decision by the so-called Paris Club of creditor nations to slash 80 per cent of the money Iraq owed them and urged non-member countries to do the same.
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WASHINGTON - The United States signed an agreement with Iraq on Friday to forgive 100 percent of the $4.1 billion debt Iraq owes it, and urged other nations to follow suit to help the war-torn nation.
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Major economic powers agreed on Sunday to write off billions of dollars of debt for Iraq in a deal that marked a significant step in U.S. efforts to help put the Iraqi economy back on its feet.
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Russia agreed on Sunday to forgive up to 80 percent of Iraqâs debts to the Paris Club (about $33 billion). A US Treasury official quoted by Reuters said they received this information from Russia.
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As a result of talks the Paris Club has arrived at a consolidated decision to write off 80 per cent of Iraq&#39;s debt, Russian Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin told journalists on Sunday [21 November].