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We Need “Adequate Assurances” From Sri Lanka Before New Interventions — IMF

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By Enyichukwu Enemanna

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it will need “adequate assurances” from Sri Lanka’s creditors before initiating program as it prepares a visit to Colombo later this month.

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The visit seeks to make progress on a staff-level agreement for an aid package “in the near term,” to help the island nation weather a severe economic crisis, the IMF said on Friday.

“Because Sri Lanka’s public debt is assessed as unsustainable, approval by the IMF Executive Board of the Extended Fund Facility program would require adequate assurances by Sri Lanka’s creditors that debt sustainability will be restored,” the IMF said.

Sri Lanka will ask Japan to invite the Indian Ocean island’s main creditor nations, including China and India, to talks on bilateral debt restructuring, Reuters report says.

The loan package being negotiated with the IMF is for between $2bn and $3bn according to President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who said he would present an interim budget in September focusing on fiscal consolidation measures agreed with the IMF.

The country of 22 million people is facing its most severe financial crisis since independence from Britain in 1948, resulting from the combined effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic mismanagement.

Sri Lankans have been battling shortages for months amid crippling inflation and a devalued currency, stoking unprecedented mass protests. Thousands of people stormed the colonial-era presidential residence in Colombo, the commercial capital, in early July.

Sri Lanka’s total bilateral debt earlier this year was estimated at $6.2bn as of the end of 2020 by the IMF. It also has $14bn of international sovereign bond debt.

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