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Seaview
* DEBT WRITTEN OFF BY SOME COUNTRIES:
United States: $4.1 billion
Japan: $6.8 billion
Germany: $5.6 billion
France: $5.1 billion
Russia: $12 billion
Italy $2.4 billion
Bulgaria $3.1 billion
Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia: $2.2 billion
Romania: $2 billion
* SAUDI ARABIA/KUWAIT:
-- Last year, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said his country would write off 80 percent of the more than $15 billion it is owed by Iraq.
-- Last September, the chairman of the Paris Club, Xavier Musca, said Saudi Arabia and Kuwait still had not offered to Iraq a debt treatment comparable to the one provided by the Paris Club in 2004.
-- Kuwait is owed about $15 billion.