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 Published Date: 04 February 2026

“Singapore’s Grant to the International Monetary Fund’s Trust for the Special Poverty Reduction and Growth Operations for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (“PRG-HIPC Trust”), to Support Sudan’s Debt Relief” - Second Motion Speech by Mr Alvin Tan, Minister of State for Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of National Development and Board Member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), on behalf of Mr Gan Kim Yong, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry, and Chairman of MAS on 4 February 2026

1 Mr Deputy Speaker, on behalf of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister in Charge of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, I beg to move, “That this Parliament, in accordance with section 6A(2)(d) of the Bretton Woods Agreements Act 1966, resolves that the maximum amount of grants that the Monetary Authority of Singapore may give under the bilateral agreement (or its subsequent variations) to be made by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Singapore) with the International Monetary Fund to support Sudan’s debt relief via the Trust for the Special Poverty Reduction and Growth Operations for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, is Special Drawing Rights (SDR) 4.48 million  (approximately USD 6.1 million).”

2 Mr Deputy Speaker, I beg to move. 

 

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