Laptop Battery BRUSSELS -- ''It is scandalous that despite high flown promises so little has been done to cancel the debt burden of the poorest countries'' said the ICFTU General Secretary Bill Jordan following a meeting in Tokyo with the Japanese Prime Minister.
The organisers of the $275 million G8 summit at the luxury Gleneagles Hotel have used the usual scare tactics to try to minimise the protests. have tried to associate themselves with the public desire for real action on debt relief, aid and trade. The Make Poverty History (MPH) campaign has struck a chord with millions.
Thinkpad ''We believe that as the host of the G8 Summit the Japanese government should play a leading role in persuading G8 countries to accelerate the debt-relief process for eligible countries, and the IMF and World Bank should write off debts of the poorest.'' Bill Jordan told Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, at a meeting between the Prime Minister and an international group of trade union leaders co-ordinated by the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC).
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Laptop Computers The trade unions are also urging the G8 countries to reduce the instability of major currencies through effective policy co-ordination between Europe, North America and Japan.
Thursday' 8 summit of leaders from the G8 industrialised nations at the Gleneagles resort in Scotland. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who will host the summit, hopes it will be a springboard for progress on tackling both global warming and poverty in Africa. On Lebanon, the G8 said it deplored a new wave of political killings, - "in particular Syria" - to fully comply with UN resolutions which call for an end to foreign meddling.
Laptop Computer The international trade union movement says events at Seattle have taught the industrialised nations that many developing countries do not have confidence that globalisation will bring the promised benefits, and need guarantees that it will bring progress and development. Cancellation of the debt would be a coherent multilateral response by multilateral institutions to globalisation's challenges.
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Desktop Computer The ICFTU says that trade unions are also concerned about the effects of globalisation, as recent years have seen a downward spiral of workers' rights. Footloose investors which move from country to country seeking the most lucrative production lines, are undermining the respect for core labour standards as well as endangering governments and companies that want to set in place socially responsible policies.
Notebooks Traditionally trade union leaders from the G8 countries (USA, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Japan and Italy), as well as the ICFTU and the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) meet before the G8 Summit and present a statement to the head of the host country. This year's meeting with Prime Minister Mori was organised by TUAC. The G8 Summit takes place on July 21-23 on the island of Okinawa.
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Luc Demaret at 00 322 224 0212 or press@icftu.org
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions(ICFTU)
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