Two Afghan women walk past shoes on sale in a street market in central Kabul (AFP)
July 20, 2006 -- The Paris Club has agreed on a multibillion-dollar debt relief deal for Afghanistan.
The group of creditor nations says in a statement today that they agreed to cut and reschedule Afghanistan's public debt, writing off some $1.6 billion of it.
The move is part of international pledges to cancel 100 percent of the country's estimated $11.3 billion debt.
(Reuters, AFP)
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