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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7722

22 May 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 25 / 42
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/development
Parliament calls for more generous policy for debt cancellation of poor countries, but use of funds made available must be monitored

Strasbourg, 22/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption last week of a resolution common to the EPP-ED, PES and ELDR groups on the debt of poor countries, the European Parliament calls on the Commission and the Council to "promote a more ambitious strategy within the international financial institutions" and to verify that the money released by debt reduction is effectively used for combating poverty. The EP invited the two institutions to "examine" the creation of a mechanism to monitor...

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