U.N. chief calls for more debt relief, urges IMF to mull SDR allocation

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. chief Antonio Guterres called on Thursday for debt relief to be offered to all developing and middle-income countries amid the coronavirus pandemic and urged the International Monetary Fund to consider boosting global liquidity by issuing a new allocation of its Special Drawing Rights (SDR) currency."Alleviating crushing debt cannot be limited to the Least Developed Countries," Guterres told a high-level U.N. meeting on how to handle the pandemic's economic..