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Finance Minister joins global debt cancellation fast

May 16, 2008 News

Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh will today be joining Archbishop Desmond Tutu and President Mkapa of Tanzania in a fast to focus on the need for debt cancellation for the world’s poorest nations.
Minister Singh, who is also Chairman of the Commonwealth Debt Sustainability Forum, took up the commitment one-day after President Bharrat Jagdeo accepted an invitation by Mr. David Golding, Development Coordinator of the UK-based ‘Make Poverty History’, to join the ‘Drop the Debt Fast’ campaign.
The “Drop the debt Fast” movement is running a 36-day rolling fast (April12-May18) to demand debt cancellation for 36 poor countries.
The movement observed that the rich world needs to “pick up the pace” as these countries are still suffering under a huge debt burden, while millions of their people live in extreme poverty.
While fasting, participants are being asked to make a chain to bring to the Journey to Justice Event on May 18 in Birmingham.
The 1998 human chain was an image of the chains of debt that need to be broken. A huge chain will be created in Centenary Square to demand that governments pick up the pace to drop all the debts.

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