VOL. XXXVII

NO. 17

24-JANUARY-1994

Financial and Banking News

Budgets & Revenues

Saudi Arabia Nears Agreement To Postpone Defense Payments

Saudi Arabia is close to an agreement with its major US arms suppliers on adeferral of payments due over the next two years. Initial proposals have focusedon a scheme whereby Saudi Arabia will pay its five major suppliers $1.5bn ineach of 1994 and 1995. The contractors will cover the difference between thisand what they were due to receive by raising loans...