NIGER
Debt Treatment
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May 12, 2004
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Supporting aggreements with the international institutions
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IMF programme supported by an Arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF)
approved on
December 13, 2000
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PRGF document
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Completion Point Document for the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)
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HIPC Initiative
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Completion point
reached on
April 08, 2004
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Total external debt of the country
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$1758 million
as of
December 31, 2002
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$250 million
of which being due to the Paris Club as of
April 01, 2004
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Amounts treated
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$250 million
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of which
$160 million
being canceled
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of which
$90 million M$
being rescheduled
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Categories of debts treated
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treatment of arrears as of
March 31, 2004
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treatment of the stock as of
April 01, 2004
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Repayment profile
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treatment under
HIPC Initiative Exit terms
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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 Participating 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) all ODA loans;
(ii) amounts of outstanding credits, loans and consolidations on debts mentioned in paragraph 1. above other than official development aid loans, up to 20% of the amounts of outstanding credits as of March 4, 1994 or up to an amount of 20 million SDR, whichever is higher.
Participating Creditor Countries and the Republic of Niger will inform semi-annually the Secretariat of the Paris Club, who will inform other creditors, of the debt swap agreements they have implemented. All elements necessary to evaluate the operation, its impact on Niger's economy and on the evolution of Creditor's exposure will be transmitted to the Secretariat, including: its nature and purpose; the parties to the debt swap; the amount, type and value of the debt treated; the price of sale to investors and the expense of the Republic of Niger.
payment of non-consolidated amounts before
October 31, 2004
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Comparability of treatment provision
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The Republic of Niger was declared eligible to the Enhanced HIPC Initiative by the IMF and the IDA on December 14, 2000 and was declared to have reached its Completion Point respectively on April 7 and 8, 2004. In this context, the Republic of Niger commits to seek promptly from all its external creditors which are not participating in the present Agreed Minute their appropriate contribution in terms of debt relief to the Enhanced HIPC Initiative, on top of traditional debt relief mechanisms and consistent with the proportional burden sharing based on their relative exposure in net present value of total external debt at Decision Point after the full use of traditional debt relief mechanisms.
The appropriate nature of the debt relief provided will be assessed not only on the basis of the reduction in the net present value of the debt as computed under Appropriate Market Rate, but also on the terms of repayment of the debts not cancelled. For this purpose, all relevant elements will be taken into account, including the level of cash payments received by those creditors as compared to their share in the Republic of Niger's external debt, the nature and characteristics of all treatment 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 Republic of Niger and creditor countries not listed in the present Agreed Minute.
Consequently, the Republic of Niger commits not to accord any category of creditors -and in particular creditor countries not participating in the present Agreed Minute, commercial banks, suppliers and bondholders- a treatment more favourable than that accorded to the Participating Creditor Countries.
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Cutoff date
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July 01, 1983
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Organisation of the session
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The meeting was chaired by
Mr. Jean-Pierre Jouyet,
Chairman of the Paris Club
The head of the debtor country's delegation was
Mr Ali M. Lamine Zeine,
Minister of Economy and Finance
Participating creditors
FRANCE
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JAPAN
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SPAIN
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UNITED KINGDOM
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Observers
AUSTRIA
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BELGIUM
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DENMARK
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GERMANY
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ITALY
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NETHERLANDS
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION
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African Development Bank
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IMF
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UNCTAD
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World Bank
Press release
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