India is drafting a proposal for G20 countries to help debtor nations badly hit by the economic fallout from the pandemic and Ukraine war, by asking lenders including China, the world's largest sovereign creditor, to take a large haircut on loans
China and other G20 countries were aware that India was working on a proposal, the officials said.
"It is our consistent stance that multilateral financial institutions and commercial creditors, which hold the bulk of the debt of developing countries, should participate in the debt relief efforts." New Delhi expects the United States to be one of the main backers of its proposal, said one of the sources.U.S. Treasury officials have previously said that they arethat multilateral development banks also take haircuts on debt principal in any restructurings. It was unclear whether the Indian proposal would advocate multilateral lenders taking haircuts.
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