UN General Assembly
1985

In Zaire a program of economic, financial and social recovery, established in agreement with the International Monetary Fund, has been started and has permitted the repayment of our debts at a satisfactory rate. In the budgetary year 1984 alone, for example, Zaire paid off its medium- and long-term debt amounting to $328 million, although its actual capacity to repay, having regard to its export earnings, scarcely exceeds $250 million a year. That means that Zaire's commitment to meet its financial obligations continues, but it must not jeopardize the objectives of its economic and social development, for the repayment of debt should not prejudice the standard of living of the peoples of the third world and the investment necessary for the progress and development of those peoples.