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Honduras says frozen loans will cost $200 mln in '09

Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:56pm EDT
TEGUCIGALPA, July 10 (Reuters) - The finance minister of an interim government in Honduras, Gabriela Nunez, said on Friday the suspension of Inter-American Development Bank and World Bank loans would cost the country $200 million in 2009.

The international lenders froze all loans for development programs in the impoverished coffee and textiles-producer following the June 28 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya. (Reporting by Juana Casas; Editing by Catherine Bremer)


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