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The Sudanese Prime Minister, Abdullah Hamdok said in a press conference, that Sudan reached a decision to write off more than $ 45 billion from its debts by the end of June, according to the HIPC initiative.
Hamdok arrived Khartoum International Airport Wednesday May 19, 2021from the French capital, Paris, after his participation in the International Conference to Support the Democratic Transition in Sudan.
“ The big challenge was that we reached the point of decision-making of HIPC initiative On how we can handle IMF debt And here was the great role of France, and President Macron took the decision that France provided the bridge loan To deal with the debts of IMF, and thus the five conditions that qualify Sudan were completed to reach the decision-making point that will operate at the end of next June “ added Hamdok
And the Sudanese Prime Minister revealed the intensive efforts led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to exempt Sudan’s debts outside the Pars Club, and discussed this with the Chinese ambassador to France.
“Saudi Arabia’s pledge to lead action to move countries out of the Paris Club
And in any understandings of numbers they are ready to match them in the same way
From outside the Paris Club, we also discussed the same issue with the ambassador t of China in France “he continued
The French President Emmanuel Macron has earlier announced that his country decided to write off all debts owed by Sudan, which amount to “about five billion dollars”, with the aim of liberating this country undergoing a democratic transition from the “burden of debt.” Paris will also extend a loan to Khartoum of 1.5 billion dollars to help it pay off debts to the International Monetary Fund.
