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Lanka in talks for $100mn emergency funding from Beijing-backed bank

Lanka in talks for $100mn emergency situation financing from Beijing-backed bank

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“decoding=”async”fetchpriority=”high”> Sri Lankans demanding for cooking gas wait with their empty gas cylinders, in Colombo (AP) COLOMBO: The China-backed Asian Facilities Financial investment Bank is considering giving $100 million in emergency situation support to Sri Lanka, the nation’s financing ministry said on Sunday.
Sri Lanka has asked for foreign-exchange liquidity assistance for state banks from the lending institution, it stated in a statement.
Hit hard by the pandemic, increasing oil costs and populist tax cuts by the federal government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the South Asian island’s economy is in crisis, with usable foreign reserves down to $50 million, financing minister Ali Sabry stated recently.
Lacks of imported food, fuel and medications have brought thousands onto the streets in over a month of mainly serene demonstrations. Rajapaksa stated a 2nd state emergency in 5 weeks on Friday.
The multilateral AIIB, established in 2014 to promote infrastructure investing throughout Asia, draws many of its financing from China.
China is Sri Lanka’s biggest bilateral lending institution, with an impressive balance of $6.5 billion mainly provided over the previous years for big facilities projects, consisting of highways, a port, an airport and a coal power plant.
Beijing has actually extended Sri Lanka a $1.3 billion syndicated loan and a $1.5 billion yuan-denominated swap to boost its reserves. The two nations are in talks for a $1.5 billion line of credit and a fresh syndicated loan of as much as $1 billion.
Colombo said this month that talks had actually started on refinancing Chinese financial obligation after Sri Lanka suspended some of external debt payments in April.

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Published at Sun, 08 May 2022 10:12:33 +0000

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