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Zimbabwe must clear arrears to get IMF loan: spokesman

Zimbabwe cannot receive an International Monetary Fund loan program until it pays off money owed to the Fund's anti-poverty trust fund, an IMF spokesman said on Thursday.

"In terms of financing, Zimbabwe cannot have a financial arrangement with the IMF because it has accumulated arrears to the poverty reduction and growth trust," IMF spokesman William Murray told a news briefing. "The Zimbabwean authorities plan to clear their arrears to this trust soon."

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