But on the final day of a meeting intended to bind Russian interests more closely to Europe, Mr. Schröder said he is willing to play a leading role in arguing Russia's case to Western creditors concerning its foreign debt.
Bert C. Roberts Jr., WorldCom's chairman, and John W. Sidgmore, its chief executive, are coming under increasing criticism from creditors concerned about the two men's inexperience at restructuring, their control of the search for a new chief executive and their possible involvement in an expanding accounting scandal, people close to the company said.
A judge will begin a hearing next month into whether the plan is fair to creditors.More concerns were raised about the process of executing murderers in America after another man took a long time to die.
Delphi's creditors were concerned that G.M.'s compensation for providing so much assistance would greatly dilute their stakes.
Privately, the International Monetary Fund, one of Greece's three creditors, is concerned that Greece could be crippled by debt for years to come.
The creditors are concerned they will not be paid because the government has frozen all Yukos assets except crude oil to collect $3.5 billion in taxes it claims Yukos owes.
Meanwhile, Delphi's unsecured creditors seemed concerned that G.M.'s efforts to get better compensation would worsen their own chances of a recovery on their claims, now almost three years old.
The creditors are concerned about the two men's inexperience at restructuring, their control of the search for a new chief executive and their possible involvement in WorldCom's expanding accounting scandal, these people said.
The safety of a national banking association, so far as its creditors are concerned, depends largely upon the security given by the statutory provision entitling creditors to look to the individual liability of shareholders, including the liability of the estates and funds in the hands of executors, guardians, and trustees holding shares of national bank stock.
