Posts Tagged ‘IMF loan’
At UN, UK’s Miliband Decries Sri Lankan Bloodbath, IMF Loan Linked, No Resolution
[Inner City Press] After a weekend of bombing and “bloodbath” in Sri Lanka, the first official to speak out at the UN in New York was UK minister David Miliband. He stopped to speak to the Press on his way into the UN Security Council’s meeting on the Middle East. He said he has arranged…
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[ Foreign Policy ] UN Dispatch’s Mark Goldberg wrote for The New Republic yesterday that Sri Lanka — the first humanitarian crisis to unfold entirely under the new administration — has been handled more or less well. His point is an excellent one: the United States has pushed to delay an IMF loan to the…
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