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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>International Monetary Fund strategy chief Ceyla Pazarbasioglu said she will travel to China next week for high-level meetings, part of efforts to press the world\u2019s largest sovereign creditor for quicker progress on debt restructurings for countries in need.<\/p>\n

Pazarbasioglu welcomed China\u2019s participation in a debt treatment package for Chad, the first country to complete the process under the Common Framework set up in late 2020 by the Group of 20 major economies.<\/p>\n

All eyes are on Zambia now, whose creditors are still hammering out a debt treatment solution, Pazarbasioglu told reporters on Wednesday. She described Zambia\u2019s larger and more complicated debt restructuring as the real test case for the Common Framework.<\/p>\n

Zambia\u2019s finance minister told the Reuters NEXT conference on Wednesday that his country was pushing to complete the restructuring of nearly $15 billion of external debt in the first quarter of 2023 and was engaging actively with its largest bilateral creditor China.<\/p>\n

Pazarbasioglu said it was critical to move forward and that \u201coutreach to China next week is very important, at the highest levels.\u201d She noted that President Xi Jinping was the only leader to mention the framework in remarks at the G20 summit in Indonesia.<\/p>\n

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other officials from the Group of Seven advanced economies have accused China of delaying efforts to restructure the debts of heavily indebted countries.<\/p>\n

China has argued that multilateral development banks should also participate in debt restructurings and that private creditors should be more engaged from the start of such processes.<\/p>\n

About a quarter of emerging market economies \u2013 and 60% of low-income countries \u2013 are at or near debt distress, the IMF has said, and it is urging countries to seek help early rather than wait until they were in full-blown crisis.<\/p>\n

Pazarbasioglu said China was hosting a meeting of the \u201cPremiere Plus,\u201d including international financial institutions and officials from China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China. Such meetings used to take place regularly, but were cancelled during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s moving \u2013 very slowly, but it\u2019s moving,\u201d Pazarbasioglu said, noting that the participation of mining company Glencore Plc in the Chad treatment was also \u201ca very good sign\u201d that \u201ceven the most difficult private sector participants\u201d were participating.<\/p>\n

She said the Paris Club of official bilateral creditors had taken years to hammer out their debt relief processes, and China was learning, although she noted that the debt issues facing borrowing countries now were acute.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem we have is that we don\u2019t have that time right now because these countries are very fragile and dealing with debt vulnerabilities,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat we need is speed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pazarbasioglu said the IMF would continue to press for changes to the Common Framework, including a freeze in debt payments when countries apply for a debt treatment, as well as clearer procedures and timelines for action, and ensuring comparable treatment for private creditors. One key issue was that large creditors needed to work out internal institutional mechanisms to deal with the unviable debts and prepare for haircuts.<\/p>\n

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