{"id":355830,"date":"2025-05-16T18:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=355830"},"modified":"2025-05-16T18:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:14:43","slug":"world-bank-announces-syria-debt-settlement-eligible-for-new-programs-and-reconstruction-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=355830","title":{"rendered":"World Bank announces Syria debt settlement, eligible for new programs and reconstruction grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington, SANA-The World Bank announced that it has settled Syria&#8217;s $15.5 million debt, making it eligible for new programs and millions of dollars in reconstruction grants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reuters quoted the bank as saying in a statement that payments from Saudi Arabia and Qatar were used to repay Syria&#8217;s arrears, noting that this makes it eligible for new programs and millions of dollars in reconstruction and budget support grants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The World Bank announced that as of May 12, Syria had no outstanding balances with the International Development Association (IDA), the bank&#8217;s fund for the poorest countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On April 27, Saudi Arabia and Qatar announced that they would repay Syria&#8217;s arrears to the IDA.<\/p>\n<p>MHD Ibrahim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, SANA-The World Bank announced that it has settled Syria&#8217;s $15.5 million debt, making it eligible for new programs and millions of dollars in reconstruction grants. Reuters quoted the bank as saying in a statement that payments from Saudi Arabia and Qatar were used to repay Syria&#8217;s arrears, noting that this makes it eligible for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":355831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-syria-and-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355832,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355830\/revisions\/355832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}