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He also made it clear that there might be a need to restructure some euro zone sovereign bonds.
Italy, for example, can by law unilaterally lengthen the maturity on its outstanding government bonds, he said. That could allow Rome to minimize its refinancing needs in the next few years while locking in funding costs from a more benign era, gaining time to push through reforms aimed at improving economic and fiscal performance to make its EUR2 trillion public debt load more evidently sustainable.
"Why might people want to start talking about this? Because such an arrangement would not imply mark-to-market losses for long-term debt holders and could even push the price of the paper up," Mr. Gurria said, marking the first time a high-ranking public official has mentioned the possibility.
Current yields of nearly 7% for Italy and Spain are not just unsustainable but represent a "collision course" between creditors and the public, he said.
"How long is the public ready to stand in to support hedge funds and big foreign banks?" Mr. Gurria asked, noting that was a significant issue when he was Mexico's lead negotiator in talks that led to the so-called Brady bonds that helped U.S. banks and Latin American governments sort out a debt crisis 20 years ago.
"We have enough experience now. We saw a lot of false starts in Greece, where we let too much time pass and lost so much, not just in terms of ultimate debt writedowns but in terms of stock-market and employment losses," Mr. Gurria said. "Even after the private-sector involvement, here we are still quaking in our boots about the result of the Greek election," he said.