European bankers welcomed a U.S. plan on debt.
The proposal by Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III calls for commercial banks to provide 15 developing countries with $20 billion in loans over the next three years and for the World Bank and its affiliate, the Inter-American Development Bank, to lend another $9 billion.
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