71.   After successfully negotiating a major rescheduling of its external debts, Moscow won a better-than-expected credit rating from international rating agencies.

72.   Any deviation would be likely to result in a higher public sector external debt burden, it said.

73.   Consumer prices, and consequently external debt, are likely to rise, but the falling rand will boost South African and Swaziland export earnings, he said.

74.   External debt stands at nine billion dollars.

75.   The short-term external debt has fallen.

76.   The Yemeni economy has been crippled by the destruction wrought by the north-south civil war and an external debt estimated at more than seven billion dollars.

77.   These changes were occurring against the backdrop of a moderate external debt burden, they said.

78.   They also would boost official foreign exchange reserves depleted by external debt service in the same period, he added.

79.   Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world, with an external debt running into more than seven billion dollars.

80.   Zeti said to ensure the fixed exchange rate continues to operate effectively the government would ensure inflation is kept low and maintain external debt at prudential levels.