Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Iraq will be asked some Arab countries write off debts

2012-03-28


(Iba) / follow / - Iraq's request of some Arab countries write off its debts and will present this approach in some Arab countries at the beginning of the Arab League summit meeting in Baghdad, to help it recover from the effects of the U.S. invasion in 2003.

Iraq has asked Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Libya, Jordan, Sudan, Egypt and Morocco to follow the example of the UAE and Algeria, which have agreed already to write off debts of Baghdad in full, the total debt of Iraq outside in 2003, about $ 140 billion, was settled largely through an agreement with the Paris Club in 2004. Iraq's debt amounted to Saudi Arabia last year's $ 30 billion, and Kuwait $ 22 billion in addition to compensation for the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1991 from the last century. (End)

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