Sri Lanka will make a presentation to its international creditors on Friday, laying out the full extent of its economic troubles and plans for a debt restructuring and multibillion-dollar International Monetary Fund bailout.
Years of economic mismanagement combined with the COVID-19 pandemic have left Sri Lanka in its worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1948, causing it to default on its sovereign debt.
The country’s Ministry of Finance said in a statement via legal firm Clifford Chance that an online call on September 23 would be open to all its external creditors and be “an interactive session” in which participants can ask questions.
Sri Lanka’s woes came to a head in July when then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa left the country and resigned after violent public protests.
His replacement Ranil Wickremesinghe has managed to reach a preliminary deal with the IMF that if formalized would provide the country with US$2.9 billion in loans over four years.
