11.   Thanong said that if the country gets IMF standby credit, it may not actually use it.

12.   The IMF has provided standby credit facilities to Thailand and Indonesia.

13.   The IMF will formally begin standby credit talks with Mexico next week, IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus said after the meeting.

14.   The standby credit would not include the strict reforms that have accompanied IMF bailout programs in several other Asian countries.

15.   The targets are part of the conditions the IMF set for the Philippines to tap the standby credit.

16.   The way to do it is for Tarrin to seek an enlargement of the standby credit from the IMF.

17.   Islamabad has decided to turn down several million dollars in previously agreed IMF standby credits and to instead enter into talks for a new larger package.

18.   Bulgaria hopes to conclude in July a standby credit accord with the IMF.

19.   It comes ahead of the arrival of an IMF mission due in Pakistan Thursday to work out details of a multi-million dollar standby credit.

20.   The IMF said it was prepared to increase the standby credit if financing arrangements were concluded with commercial banks in Poland.