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Wednesday, Jul 04, 2001

G8 - Italy

ROME

In the build up to the G8 summit the Italian parliament has adopted two motions that ask for continued dialogue on the environment with the US and the cancellation of debt for poor countries.
Along with other EU countries the Italian government was asked to maintain a "profitable and intense dialogue with the United States to find common measures to protect the environment."
The plea comes at a time of growing concern for proponents of the Kyoto protocol which has faced mounting skepticism in recent months.
The protocol was thrown into doubt in March when the world's biggest polluter, the United States, which by itself accounts for a quarter of global emissions, anounced it would not ratify it.
Signed in 1997, the ...

Australia - ETimor - reax

JAKARTA

A new multi-billion dollar oil and gas agreement between Australia and East Timor won't make the fledgling state rich but will give its people a chance to build a future, the territory's chief negotiator said Wednesday.
"Fundamentally this means the difference between being ...

SAfrica - poverty

CAPE TOWN

Thirteen South African organisations on Tuesday called on government to pay every citizen a basic income grant of 100 randdollars) "from cradle to grave" to alleviate widespread poverty.
The grant is meant to bring relief ...

Russia - prices

MOSCOW

The standard of living in Russia is lower than it was before the 1998 economic crisis, with 44 million Russians living below the poverty line, according to statistics committee figures for the first part of the year.
Although ...

Burkina - IMF

OUAGADOUGOU

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released a total of 5.5 billion CFA francs (8.38 million euros, 7.1 million dollars) to Burkina Faso for poverty alleviation schemes, the IMF said here Tuesday.
The three-yearly ...

IMF - Azerbaijan

WASHINGTON

The International Monetary Fund on Monday approved in principle a 100-million-dollar three-year loan to Azerbaijan to support the government's economic program and efforts to alleviate poverty.
The IMF executive board will make ...

UN - development - public

UNITED NATIONS

A UN panel called Thursday for a campaign to convince Western public opinion of its self-interest in greatly increasing government development aid to poor countries.
"There is a misperception in donor countries that they give away too much," the panel chairman, former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo, told a news conference. "In fact, they give away too little."
Zedillo had earlier given UN Secretary General Kofi Annan the panel's report, containing 12 recommendations for a major UN conference on financing for development, to be held in Mexico in ...

US - SAfrica

WASHINGTON

President George W. Bush on Tuesday hosted South African President Thabo Mbeki in a meeting aimed at boosting bilateral ties and winning US support for a regional rescue plan conceived by Mbeki to end war and poverty in Africa.
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