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Supporting aggreements with the international institutions
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Programme with the IMF under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF)
approved on
August 05, 2005
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PRGF document
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Completion Point Document for the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
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HIPC Initiative
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Completion point
reached on
March 15, 2007
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Total external debt of the country
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$294 million
as of
December 31, 1999
,
$24 million
of which being due to the Paris Club as of
March 01, 2007
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Amounts treated
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$24 million
,
of which
$23 million
being canceled
,
of which
$1 million
being rescheduled
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Categories of debts treated
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treatment of arrears as of
February 28, 2007
,
treatment of the stock as of
March 01, 2007
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Repayment profile
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treatment under
HIPC Initiative Exit terms
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Comparability of treatment provision
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The Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe was declared eligible to the Enhanced HIPC initiative by the IDA and the IMF in 2000 and was declared to have reached its Completion Point in March 2007. In this context, the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe commits to seek promptly from all its external creditors which are not participating in these Agreed Minutes, 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 Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe’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 Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe and creditor countries not listed in these Agreed Minutes.
Consequently, the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe commits not to accord any category of creditors -and in particular creditor countries not participating in these Agreed Minutes, 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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April 01, 1999
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Organisation of the session
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The meeting was chaired by
M. Ambroise Fayolle,
Co-President of the Paris Club
The head of the debtor country's delegation was
Mrs Maria dos Santos Tebus Torres,
Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and Finance
Participating creditors
BELGIUM
,
FRANCE
,
GERMANY
,
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
,
SPAIN
Observers
CANADA
,
ITALY
,
JAPAN
,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
,
IMF
,
World Bank
Press release
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