Sonko sur le versement des 471 millions de dollars : «Tout le monde pensait qu’on n’allait pas pouvoir…»
The Prime Minister chaired the steering committee for the implementation of the national stability pact on Tuesday. During the meeting, he addressed the payment of $471 million of Senegal's international bond debt (Eurobonds), which was due to be honored this March.
“This March, everyone thought that Senegal would not be able to pay its debt installments. Because the debt was heavy? But, we give thanks to God and commend the work of the government, especially the Minister of Finance, to settle this debt,” said Ousmane Sonko during the meeting.
The Senegalese Prime Minister addressed this issue to better explain to union representatives the difficulties the government is currently facing, at a time when some unions have decided to resume their confrontational stance.
To them, he explained that the government had done a great deal in recent months, notably by granting housing allowances to workers, by carrying out the requested regularizations, and by lowering the prices of certain essential goods and products. And all this, in a precarious budgetary environment.
He told the unions and employers that the legacy of the old regime is heavy and that partners have blocked their disbursements because of the debt. "The IMF, which allows donors to have confidence, has always suspended its program and disbursements. But we have made all these efforts," he stated.
Sonko urged the strikers to rise above their differences: "I don't see why people would want to paralyze the country today. We must all be patriots. Let's give ourselves time to work, to build the country and its wealth. And then we will share the fruits," he advised them.
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