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COLOMBO, Jan 1 Asia Pulse - Sri Lanka's central bank has said the government's external commercial net debt liabilities stock has declined by about US$255 million during the year 2008 substantially reducing its exposure to foreign exchange risk.
It said in a statement that during the year, the government settled several external foreign currency commercial loan obligations amounting to 175 million dollars.
These payments included the settlement of a 100 million dollar syndicated loan which was arranged by the Citicorp Investment Bank (Singapore) Limited in December 2005.
Also settled was the balance of 25 million dollars from a loan through Citibank in September 2003 with the assistance of Japan's NEXI and repayment of a 50 million dollar loan from India's ICICI Bank in October 2007 through the state-run National Savings Bank.
"Since the new external foreign currency commercial borrowings during 2008 were limited to only 150 million dollars, the total external foreign currency commercial debt stock declined ...