Ghana asks Afreximbank to discuss debt treatment
ACCRA, May 29 (Reuters) - Ghana asked Afreximbank to sit down for debt treatment talks with the gold producing nation and its advisors in a letter sent last week by the finance minister and seen on Thursday by Reuters.
"The objective of these discussions is to identify debt treatment solutions that are acceptable to Afreximbank, while ensuring that Ghana complies with the debt sustainability parameters of the IMF programme and the Comparability of Treatment principle as assessed by the (Official Creditor Committee)," Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson wrote in the letter dated May 21.
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