Aid to Ireland may be disbursed in January -Juncker

LUXEMBOURG | Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:12am GMT

LUXEMBOURG Nov 22 (Reuters) - International lenders may disburse the first tranche of emergency aid to Ireland in January, Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker said on Monday.

Juncker, who chairs the monthly meetings of euro zone finance ministers, also said Ireland's problems would not spread to other euro zone countries, contrary to what many market analysts believed.

"We guess that the first money shipment could be realised in the course of January," he told reporters.

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