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14th May 2004.
Debt and Development Coalition Ireland request
your assistance.
In March/April '04, we ran a letter campaign
focused on Minister Brian Cowen, T.D. Minister
for Foreign Affairs, inviting people to write
and ask him to put the Debt Crisis on the agenda
of the EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs meeting
on 26/27th April 2004.
Did you received a reply?
If not, could you write requesting to know did
he manage to put the Debt Crisis on the agenda
as you are aware that the finance for the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) was being discussed at
the meeting. A major financial contribution towards
the MDGs could be through the cancellation of
the debt. Most of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
(HIPC) of our world spend millions on debt repayments
before meeting the educational, health and social
needs of their people. Debt servicing, repayments
are made in foreign exchange, hard earned through
ever decreasing export earnings. It would be more
just to cancel the debt and allow a country use
its resources to meet its peoples' poverty needs.
Please ask Minister Cowen if he managed to fulfil
his own earlier promise 'to use every opportunity
to raise the debt crisis during the Irish EU Presidency'.
Minister Brian Cowen,
Department of Foreign Affairs,
Iveagh House,
St. Stephens Green,
Dublin 2
Email: minister@iveagh.gov.ie
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Original Campaign - March 04 |
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ARCHIVED ARTICLE : March 04 original
campaign call to contact Minister Cowen
Call on the government
to fulfil EU Presidency Promises on Debt!!
The
next target in our campaign on Debt and
the Irish EU Presidency is the meeting of
EU Foreign Affairs Ministers in Brussels
26/27 April '04. We include a briefing with
the background information on this meeting.
There is also a draft letter to Minister
Cowen urging him to make debt an important
issue on the agenda. Please send a letter
to Mr. Cowen and get others to do the same.
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