Interview with former governor - Iraq central bank

- Central Banking staff
- 19 Mar 2003

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INTERVIEW - Salah al-Shaikhly was a Governor of the Iraqi Central Bank in the early 1970s. In an interview published Wednesday March 19he told how Saddam Hussein's regime had ruined the Iraqi economy running up a debt of US$ 112bn. He also says that he and other economists have been in talks with the U.S. State Department and Treasury on an economic plan for Iraq post-war.

First published by Reuters, 19 March.

Iraq will pay its debts after Saddam Hussein is removed but will need a big write off so

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