31.   The United States is the last of the creditor nations to reach a debt accord with Vietnam.

32.   The Vatican urged creditor nations Thursday to provide debt relief to the countries devastated by Hurricane Mitch last month.

33.   The World Bank also will contribute along with the United States and other creditor nations.

34.   Group of Seven leaders on Friday signalled they were ready to open talks on Russia joining the Paris club of creditor nations.

35.   Hours earlier the Paris Club of creditor nations agreed to reschedule seven billion dollars of the debt.

36.   Algeria has started negotiations with its Paris Club of creditor nations, seeking a new rescheduling of its debts, sources at the talks said.

37.   Another dealer with a local brokerage said he saw the market correcting next week once news of the Paris Club meeting of creditor nations comes out.

38.   Budiono said last week he was confident the Paris Club, a grouping of leading creditor nations, would approve the rescheduling of principal and interest.

39.   Britain was not a signatory of the agreement on that point reached last year by the Paris Club of creditor nations.

40.   But the concept has not excited much interest among creditor nations, many of whom are skeptical as to whether the swaps would work in practice.