If France, Poland's largest creditor in the Paris Club, agrees to earlier repayment of the Polish debt, the country will be able to issue another tranche of eurobonds, finance minister Miroslaw Gronicki said on Wednesday.
In June, the ministry also plans a small JPY denominated issue. Poland has been trying to repay earlier EUR
12.3bn to the Paris Club countries. Towards the end of March the ministry repaid the debt to five countries - Germany (EUR 2bn), Great Britain (EUR 923mn), Holland (EUR 226mn), Finland (EUR38mn) and Denmark (EUR 106mn). The debt to Canada was partially repaid, which leaves EUR 8bn remaining to be repaid, including the debt to France of EUR 2.6bn.
Recently, the ministry sold bonds denominated in Swiss francs worth a total of CHF 1.5bn. This year the ministry also sold 15-year eurobonds worth a total of EUR 4.5bn. Also in April, the ministry selected Daiwa Securities and Nomura Securities to organise an issue of medium-term bonds denominated in Japanese yen with a fixed interest rate. In 2004, Poland sold 30-year bonds on the Japanese market worth a total of JPY
66.8bn (around USD 700mn). ISB