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Reuters
Reuters
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By Jorgelina do Rosario and Uditha Jayasinghe

Sri Lanka expects to finalise domestic debt rework by May

FILE PHOTO: A vendor waits for customers at his vegetable stall at a main market in Colombo, Sri Lanka February 10, 2023. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

Sri Lanka will kick off a reworking of part of its domestic debt next month and aims to finalise it by May, central bank and treasury officials told creditors during a virtual presentation on Thursday.

The financially strapped South Asian country will also start formal negotiations for the debt it owes to bilateral creditors and overseas bondholders after the domestic debt operation, aiming to complete those parallel debt talks by September.

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