Supporting agreements with the international institutions
IMF programme : Poverty Reduction Growth Facility (PRGF) approved on December 06, 2001
Total external debt of the country
$32 800 million as of November 01, 2001
$13 334 million of which being due to Paris Club as of November 01, 2001
Amounts treated
Accorded treatment
Restructuring of the public external debt
Categories of debt treated
Treatment of the stock as of November 30, 2001
Repayment profile
Treatment under Ad Hoc terms
Specific provisions
Possibility to conduct debt swaps
On a voluntary and bilateral basis, the Government of each creditor country or its appropriate institutions may sell or exchange, in the framework of debt for nature, debt for aid, debt for equity swaps or other local currency debt swaps : (i) all ODA loans ; (ii) the amounts of other outstanding credits, loans and consolidations mentioned in paragraph 1. above, up to 20% of the amounts of outstanding credits as of December 31, 1998 or up to an amount of 30 million SDR, whichever is higher. Participating Creditor Countries and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan will inform semi-annually the Secretariat of the Paris Club, who will inform other creditors, of the debt swaps agreements they have implemented. All elements necessary to evaluate the operation, its impact on the Islamic Republic of Pakistan's economy and on the evolution of creditor's exposure will be transmitted to the Secretariat including : its nature and purpose ; the parties to the debt swap ; the amount, type and value of the debt treated ; the price of sale to investors and the expense of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Free transferability provision
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan will continue to allow unrestricted and immediate access to the foreign exchange required for servicing private sector debts owed to or guaranteed by the Participating Creditor Countries or their appropriate institutions.
De minimis threshold of 5 000 000 SDR
Payment of non-consolidated amounts before April 01, 2002
Comparability of treatment provision
In order to secure comparable treatment of its debt due to all its external public or private creditors, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan commits itself to seek promptly from all its external creditors debt reorganisation arrangements on terms comparable to those set forth in the present Agreed Minute, while trying to avoid discrimination among different categories of creditors.
Consequently, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan commits itself to accord all categories of creditors -and in particular creditor countries not participating in the present Agreed Minute, and private creditors- a treatment not more favourable than that accorded to the Participating Creditor Countries for credits of comparable maturity.
For the purpose of the comparison between the arrangements concluded by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan with its creditors not listed in the present Agreed Minute on the one hand, and with the Participating Creditor Countries on the other hand, all relevant elements will be taken into account, including the real exposure of the creditors not participating in the present Agreed Minute, the level of cash payments received by those creditors from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as compared to their share of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan's external debt, the nature and characteristics of all treatment applied, including debt buy backs, and all characteristics of the reorganized claims and in particular their repayment terms whatever forms they take and in general the financial relations between the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the creditors not listed in the present Agreed Minute.
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan will inform in writing the Chairman of the Paris Club not later than September 1, 2002 of the progress made in negotiations with other creditors, as well as of the contents of the negotiations. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan will further inform in writing regularly the Chairman of the Paris Club of the status of its negotiations with other creditors, as well as of the payments made to them.
Cut-off date
September 30, 1997
Organisation of the session
The meeting was chaired by Mr. Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Chairman of the Paris Club.
The head of the debtor country's delegation was Mr. Shaukat Aziz, Minister of Finance.
