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| Arabs lost 2.5 trillion dollars from credit crunch: Kuwait |
| Kuwait City, 17.01.2009 |
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| Jan 16, 2009 (AFP) - Arab investors have lost 2.5 trillion dollars from the credit crunch, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah, whose country hosts an Arab economic summit next week, said on Friday.
"The Arab world has lost 2.5 trillion dollars in the past four months" as a result of the global financial crisis, Sheikh Mohammad told a press conference following a joint meeting of Arab foreign and finance ministers in Kuwait.
He also said that about 60 percent of development projects "have either been postponed or cancelled" by the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states because of the global meltdown.
Arab leaders who hold their first ever economic summit on January 19-20 will discuss the impact of the worldwide economic meltdown on the 22 Arab countries.
The main losses came from an estimated 40 percent drop in the value of some 2.5 trillion dollars of Arab investments abroad, losses of more than 600 billion dollars from falls on stock markets and a sharp decline in oil revenues.
The meeting will also discuss the Gaza war but leaders are still intent on agreeing a joint response to the financial crisis.
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