"G20 creditors on board for Ghana debt relief talks \u2013 Paris Club"

" G20 creditors on board for Ghana debt relief talks \u2013 Paris Club \r\nAll member-countries of the G20 group of economic powers are on board for a restructuring of Ghana\u2019s debt; and Paris Club members are ready to take the first step toward forming a creditor committee, an official from the Paris Club said on Thursday.\r\n\r\nGhana last week requested a restructuring of debt it owes to other governments, becoming the fourth country after Chad, Ethiopia and Zambia to do so under a G20 Common Framework.\r\n\r\nThe programme, which was launched in 2020, was supposed to streamline the process of coordinating among creditor governments the restructuring of low-income countries\u2019 debts after the pandemic.\r\n\r\nHowever, progress has proven glacial for the first cases \u2013 a situation Western countries say is in part due to a lack of restructuring experience by China, a non-Paris Club G20 creditor that has become a major lender in recent years.\r\n\r\n \u201cThere is a commitment by leaders to form the creditor committee, so it\u2019s a question of time. We know that all G20 members are committed to undertake the debt treatment under the Common Framework,\u201d the Paris Club official told journalists.\r\n\r\nThe official requested they not be named in order to speak freely about the restructuring situation.\r\n\r\nForming a creditor committee took a couple months for previous cases; however, the official said the Paris Club members are all ready to do so for Ghana and hope it can be done in a month.\r\n\r\nThe official said Ghana\u2019s case is less complex than Zambia, whose case the official said is progressing after struggling since it became the first African country to default after the pandemic.\r\n\r\n \u201cWe think that the process will become smoother and smoother on the basis of previous cases,\u201d the official said \u2013 adding that Ghana\u2019s authorities had sought assurances its case would be dealt with in a \u201ctimely manner\u201d."

"G20 creditors on board for Ghana debt relief talks \u2013 Paris Club"

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