Turkey Repays $1 Billion In Foreign Debt

ANKARA - Turkey repaid a total of 1 billion 14.58 million U.S. dollars in foreign debt between April 1 and 28, 2004.
The Central Bank data show that the Treasury repaid 489.70 million U.S. dollars; the Central Bank repaid 32.49 million U.S. dollars, and the administrations with general and consolidated budget paid the remaining 62.57 million U.S. dollars.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was repaid 429.82 million U.S. dollars in the same period.
Turkey repaid 1 billion 575.33 million U.S. dollars in foreign debt in January, 2 billion 597.89 million U.S. dollars in February and 2 billion 349 million U.S. dollars in March. The IMF was repaid 1 billion 816.30 million U.S. dollars.
Turkey had repaid 15 billion 365.7 million U.S. dollars in foreign debt in 2003.
(UK-AY) 29.04.2004