{"id":88620,"date":"2025-08-24T01:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/88620\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T01:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T01:59:11","slug":"uk-sri-lanka-sign-bilateral-debt-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/88620\/","title":{"rendered":"UK &#038; Sri Lanka sign bilateral debt agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-200169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot_20250823_220142_Zoho-Mail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom signed a bilateral debt agreement on Friday (22 August), implementing the debt restructuring terms agreed with the Official Creditor Committee in June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement, signed by British High Commissioner Andrew Patrick and Finance Ministry Secretary Dr. Harshana Suriyapperuma, allows Sri Lanka to resume interest payments while principal repayments are deferred until 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The deal covers UK Export Finance (UKEF) and forms part of the wider restructuring effort co-chaired by France, India, Japan, and other Paris Club members.<\/p>\n<p>British High Commissioner Patrick said the agreement was a \u201ckey step to restore debt sustainability and regain investor confidence to support Sri Lanka\u2019s economic recovery.\u201d (Newswire)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-200168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot_20250823_215804_Drive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1086\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom signed a bilateral debt agreement on Friday (22 August), implementing the debt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-88620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}