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Chancellor Gordon Brown
announces that the coming year presents a once-in-a-generation
chance to finally provide proper foreign aid and debt relief
to the poorer countries as the British government will take on
the presidency of the G8 and the EU in 2005. His laudable but
paltry goal of persuading all rich countries to provide 0.7%
of their GDPs This comes on the same day that several charities
and unions join together under the banner "Make Poverty
History" - and all this amidst the unfolding disaster of
the tsunami which inundated the South Asian coast causing death
and displacement on a huge scale. It all seems rather shamefully
pathetic.
The Guardian; Wednesday
29/12/04 |
