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Supporting aggreements with the international institutions
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program with the IMF : Stand-by Arrangement
approved on
January 31, 2005
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Total external debt of the country
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$6414 million
as of
December 31, 2004
,
representing
54%
of GDP (IMF report dated 30/09/2005)
$2047 million
of which being due to the Paris Club as of
January 01, 2005
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Amounts treated
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$137 million
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Categories of debts treated
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treatment of maturities falling due from
January 01, 2005
up to
December 31, 2005
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Repayment profile
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treatment under
Classic terms
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repayment of non ODA credits over
12
years
,
with
5
years of grace
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repayment of ODA credits over
12
years
with
5
years of grace
The rates and the conditions of interest of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) loans, should be at least as favourable as the original concessional rates applying to consolidated loans and in any case, not higher than the Appropriate Market Rate.
repayment profile
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Specific provisions
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possibility to conduct debt swaps
On a voluntary and bilateral basis, the Government of each creditor country or its appropriate institutions may sell or exchange, in the framework of debt for nature, debt for aid, debt for equity swaps or other local currency debt swaps:
(i) the amounts of outstanding loans as regards Official Development Assistance loans;
(ii) the amounts of other outstanding credits, up to 10% of the amounts of outstanding credits as of 30 September 1991 or up to an amount of 10 million dollars of the United States of America, whichever is higher.
good will clause
The Participating Creditor Countries will review the external financing needs of the Dominican Republic in December 2005 in connection with satisfying the conditions for the 3rd review under the IMF Stand-by Arrangement with a view to providing additional relief in 2006, if needed, to support the programme.
payment of non-consolidated amounts before
April 30, 2006
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Comparability of treatment provision
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In order to secure comparable treatment of its debt due to its other external public or private creditors, the Government of the Dominican Republic commits to seek promptly from its external creditors debt reorganization arrangements on terms comparable to those set forth in these Agreed Minutes, while trying to avoid discrimination among different categories of creditors. The Government of the Dominican Republic commits to accord all categories of creditors -and in particular creditor countries not participating in these Agreed Minutes, and private sector- a treatment not more favourable than that accorded to the Participating Creditor Countries for credits of comparable maturity.
For the purpose of the comparison between the arrangements concluded by the Government of the Dominican Republic with its creditors not listed in these Agreed Minutes and with the Participating Creditor Countries, all relevant elements shall be taken into account, including the real exposure of the creditor not listed in these Agreed Minutes, the level of cash payments received by those creditors from the Government of the Dominican Republic as compared to their share in the Dominican Republic's external debt, the nature and characteristics of all treatments applied, including debt buy backs, and all characteristics of the reorganized claims and in particular their repayment terms whatever forms they take and in general the financial relations between the Government of the Dominican Republic and the creditors not listed in these Agreed Minutes.
Paris Club creditors assess that, on the basis of the information provided by the authorities of the Dominican Republic, the restructuring agreements reached with private sector creditors, in particular the bond restructuring in July 2005 and the rescheduling agreement signed with the commercial banks on 17 October 2005, if implemented, meet the comparability of treatment requirement of these Agreed Minutes.
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Cutoff date
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June 30, 1984
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Organisation of the session
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The meeting was chaired by
M. Ramon Fernandez,
Vice President of the Paris Club
The head of the debtor country's delegation was
MM. Juan Temistocles Montas & Vicente Bengoa,
Technical Secretary of the Presidency & Finance Secretary
Participating creditors
FRANCE
,
GERMANY
,
JAPAN
,
SPAIN
,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Observers
BELGIUM
,
CANADA
,
DENMARK
,
ITALY
,
NORWAY
,
SWITZERLAND
,
European Commission
,
IMF
,
Inter-American Development Bank
,
UNCTAD
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