The governors of the
Inter-American Development Bank (I.A.D.B.) will meet 19 and
20 of January in Ámsterdam, Holland, to define the terms of
the condonación of the debts that with the organism have
five countries of Latin America, among them Nicaragua.
The representative in Nicaragua of
the I.A.D.B., Mirna Liévano de Marques, confirmed to the
PRESS which in the encounter the terms of the condonación
for each country, that in the case of Nicaragua could be,
like minimum will be defined, 600 million dollars.
“That meeting (of Ámsterdam) will
be for discussing the terms of the condonación of the debt
of the Poor Countries Highly Indebted (HIPC), between which
are Nicaragua, Haiti, Honduras, Bolivia and Guyana”, Liévano
de Marques explained.
These countries, whose debt
contracted with the I.A.D.B. ascends to about 3.500 million
dollars, request that the lightening of the obligations also
is applied to that institution.
The presidents of these countries
have assured that the weight of this debt “affects the most
vulnerable sectors of the societies, risks the reached
stability, drives away the investment and threatens the
profits of economic growth”.
The representative of the I.A.D.B.
in Nicaragua said that the agreements that obtain in the
meeting of Ámsterdam will be presented/displayed to the
plenary one of the Assembly of Governors when they meet in
Guatemala the next March.
THE DATE OF CUT
Liévano de Marques said that they
are analyzing the date of cut of the debt.
“It seems to Me that it is being
spoken of December 2004. What varies is, if the disbursed
loans are reduced one hundred percents, or in another
percentage”, indicated.
According to numbers of the
Central bank of Nicaragua (BCN), the debt with the I.A.D.B.
ascends to about 1.200 million dollars.
According to the report, to last
September the external debt of Nicaragua went up to around
the 4.500 million dollars.
With the pardon of the I.A.D.B. to
make official itself, the country could be saved between 20
and 25 million dollars destined to the payment of this debt
during the 2007 and to invest them in social and productive
projects.
