VOL. XXXIII

NO. 11

18-DECEMBER-1989

Financial and Banking News

Loans & Issues

Saudi Arabia Obviates Need for UK Loan, Apparently Pays Cash

An official Saudi statement last week made it clear that Saudi Arabia willnot need recourse to a 2bn ($3.1bn) loan which was being arranged in London tocover a shortfall in its payments for British arms (MEES, 4 December). Thestatement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency on 12 December, quoted aresponsible source as saying that "contacts between the...