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Debts: Zimbabwe

Volume 457: debated on Monday 5 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on Zimbabwe's repayment of debt to the Export Credits Guarantee Department. (122845)

Zimbabwe has been in default on ECGD-guaranteed contracts since 1998. Little has since been recovered, and nothing has been recovered since ECGD's 2002-03 financial year. ECGD's unrecovered claims currently amount to £105 million. Zimbabwe's arrears to official creditors are substantial and cannot be properly addressed in the continued absence of a funded IMF programme, which would be a prerequisite of any restructuring by the Paris Club Group of Official Creditors.