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Sri Lanka accuses IMF of playing politics
Al l’, Washingron
Sri Lanka on Friday accused the International Monetary Fund of politicizing financial aid following the fund's delay in considering a 1.9-billlon-dollar bailout for the war-ravaged economy.
"Never ever has the IMF taken political factors into account Now. it seems for the first time they are doing that - indirectly,'' Sri I ankan Trade Minister G.L Peiris told AFP in Washington ahead of talks with fund officials.
Sri Lanka tapped the IMF for aid in March in a bid to stave off its first balance of payment deficit in four years after the island's foreign currency reserves fell to around six weeks' worth of imports.
The loan has been put off due to political pressure from the United States, Britain and other Western nations over Colombo's handling of the final stages of a battle against Tamil separatists and charges that thousands of civilians were killed.
The Tamil Tigers were defeated last month.
Peiris said the IMF and Sri I ankan authorities had completed what he called "tactical discussions" over the 1 9-billion-dollar standby facility as early as April but that the fund's board had still not met to consider the issue.
"So we think that it is wrong and. apart from (he fact that it is unfair because Sri Lanka has to be helped in this situation, not obstructed, it is a very unsound and dangerous precedent for the future," he warned.
France to sell stake in Areva nuclear group
Al t’, Paris
The French state will sell a chunk of nuclear giant Areva to Asian and Middle Eastern investors to help finance the future of a group considered a jewel in the country's industrial crown, a report said Friday.
The Financial Times said the government was preparing a capital increase for the state-controlled group and could sell a 15 percent stake to raise two billion euros (2.8 billion dollars).
The move would leave the French state with 75 percent of Areva, a world leader in nuclear power with manufacturing facilities in 43 countries, down from its current 90 percent.
France produces most of its electricity from nuclear power and President Nicolas Sarkozy has been active in trumpeting his country's know-how to win French companies new business abroad.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHD, Areva's Japanese partner, is set to take a stake in the French company, said the FT, citing unnamed people with knowledge of the situation.
Mill said it had not received an offer to buy a stake but told AFP it was prepared to study such a proposition.
Gazprom in billion-dollar energy deal in Namibia
AFP, Windhoek
Russian energy giant Gazprom said Friday its banking unit had struck a one-billion-dollar (711-million-euro) deal with Namibian energy company Namcor to build a new power plant in Namibia.
Under the deal, Russia would build a power plant generating energy for both Namibia and South Africa, getting a foothold in the lucrative Kudu gas field, Namibia's only commercial field to date.
The deal was reached during a visit to Windhoek by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who left Namibia for Angola on Friday as he wraps up a four-nation African tour that has focused on tapping the continent's energy wealth.
"Our Namibian partners have offered us to organise a financing scheme to monetise gas resources," the head of Gazprom International Boris Ivanov told reporters in Luanda.
"The cost of the project is around 1.0 to 1.2 billion dollars," he said, adding that the price tag includes the power station, a pipeline and other infrastructure, with construction taking up to four years.
Spain announces 9b-euro banking fund
AFP, Madrid
Spain on Friday announced a nine-billion-euro (12.7-billion-dollar) fund to help revive the financial sector by buying stakes in banks hit by the global crisis and get them lending again.
The Fund for Ordered Bank Restructuring, which could be expanded to 27 billion euros this year, was approved at a cabinet meeting on Friday, Finance Minister Elena Salgado told a news conference.
"We have to guarantee the role of banks, which is to collect deposits and extend credit," she said, after the government’s weekly cabinet meeting.
Shesaid thefund, made upofpublic money andother existing bank support funds, will be used to help banks in difficulty, particularly regional savings banks, by buying stakes in them and helping them merge or restructure.
Spanish banks got off relatively lightly from the subprime crisis last year.