| 21. | Last week, officials told Tong his acts might affect relations with Japan, China's biggest creditor nation.
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| 22. | Lisa later meets with the leaders of America's creditor nations, who demand that America pay them back.
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| 23. | "I encourage non-Paris Club creditor nations to agree to comparable debt reduction for Iraq, " he said.
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| 24. | Earlier this year, he clinched a deal with creditor nations partially to write off Russia's Soviet-era debt.
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| 25. | The United States is the last of the creditor nations to reach a debt accord with Vietnam.
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| 26. | Western creditor nations have been pressing Moscow to repay its Cold War-era debts to ease their budget deficits.
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| 27. | Earlier in the summit, Russia was invited to join the Paris Club, a prestigious collection of creditor nations.
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| 28. | Yeltsin also welcomed Russia's admission into the Paris Club of creditor nations, an agreement that was signed Wednesday.
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| 29. | The Paris Club is an informal group of creditor nations that seeks solutions for payment difficulties of indebted nations.
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| 30. | Britain agreed in principle to cancel half its Vietnamese debt at a meeting of creditor nations in November 1993.
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