Iraq pays 20 billion dollars of its external debt

by **claud39** Tue Dec 17, 2019 7:21 am

Iraq pays 20 billion dollars of its external debt

17/12/2019

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Economy News _ Baghdad

The Finance Committee announced, on Tuesday, the payment of more than $ 20 billion of the size of external debt owed by Iraq.

The head of the committee, Haitham al-Jubouri, said in an interview with the official Iraqi News Agency "conscious" that "the external debts still on Iraq are 27 billion dollars and 41 billion dollars for Saudi Arabia are not recognized, because they were debts given to the former regime president during the Iran-Iraq war."

He added that "the debts on Iraq were more than 50 billion dollars, more than 20 billion dollars was paid during the last period."

http://economy-news.net/content.php?id=18541

by **claud39** Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:46 am

Iraq Repays more than $20bn in Foreign Debt

20th December 2019

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Iraq has paid back more than $20 billion in foreign debt, the head of the parliamentary finance committee Haitham Al-Jubouri has said.

“Iraq’s foreign debt amounted to more than $50 billion. More than $20 billion was paid back over the last period,” Al-Jubouri told the Iraqi news agency.

According to the official, Iraq still owes $27 billion to foreign countries, in addition to $41 billion to Saudi Arabia given as a grant to the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

(Source: Middle East Monitor)

https://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2019/12/20/iraq-repays-more-than-20bn-in-foreign-debt/