As a result, some countries have forgiven substantial amounts of Bolivia's bilateral debt.

To date, creditor governments have cancelled 11% of Africa's concessional bilateral debts.

He added that the time has come "for radical measures" including the cancellation of all bilateral debts.

This led to the Paris Club members agreeing in November 2001 to substantially reduce the remaining bilateral debt.

This will lead to the complete forgiveness of a considerable volume of bilateral debt, including that owed to the United States.

He said the United States would also eliminate bilateral debt in the cases of the poorest nations.

We welcome the cancellation of bilateral debt, which is relatively easy to decide politically, the difficult part is multilateral debt.

Most donor countries that take their responsibility as a donor partner seriously have in fact more or less cancelled all the outstanding bilateral debt.

The bilateral debt is relatively easy for the donors to manage; it is their own decision.

In addition, the Commission is committed to writing off bilateral debts owed to it by countries qualifying for debt relief.