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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8867

15 January 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/third world debt
European Parliament stresses priority should go to least developed countries actively attempting to made poverty history

Strasbourg, 14/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - In Strasbourg on Wednesday, the very same day as the Paris Club was offering the tsunami-hit nations in the Indian Ocean a moratorium on debt (which only proved of interest to Sri Lanka, Thailand the Seychelles), the European Parliament was discussing (along with the Council and Commission) debt relief for developing countries. They also discussed the Paris Club's November 2004 decision to drop 80% of Iraq's debt. During the debate, the President of...

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