Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 13/ Trend V. Zhavoronkova/
Tajikistan's external debt hit $2.1 billion at the end of the third quarter of 2011, or 33.4 percent of the country's GDP, KyrTAG reports.
In the third quarter the short term debt increased by $25 million.
Tajikistan's main creditors include the Asian Bank for Development and the Islamic Development Bank, the World Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China. As much as $800 million of the external debt accounts for the Export-Import Bank of China.
Tajikistan's Finance Ministry reported $40 million was allocated from the state budged to serve the country's external debt during the first nine months of 2011.