91.   President Eduardo Duhalde considers Argentina has met the prerequisites set by the IMF for the resumption of negotiations on a new financial package.

92.   Sri Lanka announced Wednesday a financial package to save luxury hotels threatened with closure following a sharp fall in the number of foreign tourists visiting this Indian Ocean island.

93.   The financial package was designed to provide new resources that would cover a shortfall in tax receipts over the past year.

94.   The financial package provides for long-term loans to private businesses and to help privatise the North Estonian Bank, the only remaining state-owned bank in the country.