{"id":41840,"date":"2023-07-03T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T10:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-can-meet-debt-service-obligations-says-finance-minister"},"modified":"2023-07-03T10:34:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T10:34:56","slug":"mozambique-can-meet-debt-service-obligations-says-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-can-meet-debt-service-obligations-says-finance-minister","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique can meet debt service obligations, says finance minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Mozambique\u2019s Minister of Economy and Finance, Max Tonela, claimed on Tuesday that the country will be able to meet this year\u2019s debt servicing obligations.<\/p>\n

According to a report in Thursday\u2019s issue of the independent daily \u201cO Pais\u201d, Mozambique\u2019s total debt stands at 14.4 billion US dollars. 70 per cent of this is foreign debt, and 30 per cent is domestic debt.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a press conference to which only foreign journalists were invited (although \u201cO Pais\u201d obtained a recording of the Minister\u2019s remarks), Tonela said that this year debt servicing will be about 1.5 billion dollars.<\/p>\n

To be precise, the amount owing, in both foreign and domestic debt, including both interest and capital, is one billion and 571 million dollars<\/p>\n

To date the country has paid its creditors 764 million dollars, or 48.6 per cent of this year\u2019s debt service. Tonela guaranteed that the government will be able to pay the rest by December.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government has all the conditions required to continue to comply with its obligations\u201d, he declared.<\/p>\n

Tonela was not worried by a recent negative assessment from the Standard and Poors rating agency. That assessment, he said, \u201cwas based on a retroactive framework, above all in the initial months of the year, when the impact of the wage reform implemented by the State last year, was very large from the financial point of view\u201d.<\/p>\n

To solve this problem, the government took a series of measures, notably through a recent amendment to the law establishing the new Single Wage Table (TSU) for the public administration which, he believes, \u201cwill put the State accounts back on the rails in accordance with the projections made, and with the budget for this year\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tonela was optimistic about the prospects for State revenue from the country\u2019s natural gas reserves. He believed that, over the next 25 years, the state will earn an average of 750 million dollars a year from the gas.<\/p>\n

In the early years, he said, revenue from gas would be 100 million dollars a year, but would then rise gradually, until it reached about a billion dollars a year.<\/p>\n

Tonela also forecast that economic growth this year will reach five per cent, and could reach seven per cent a year over the next two years.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambique\u2019s Minister of Economy and Finance, Max Tonela, claimed on Tuesday that the country will be able to meet this year\u2019s debt servicing obligations. 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