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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:45:53 EST
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MR Paul Harper, a member of Jubilee 2000 Australia, has called on African
governments to join the campaign for debt cancellation in developing
countries.
Jubilee 2000 is an international crusade which calls on the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the G7 nations to cancel debt owned by
developing countries to enable them to focus on pressing human needs.
Mr Harper said debt cancellation is an important step in creating a more
equitable, peaceful and sustainable world.
He said without the assistance of African leaders, the objective of the
campaign cannot be achieved.
Mr Harper, who is on cycle tour of some selected counties, made the call in
an interview with the Graphic in Accra.
He said he has so far made 16,000 km on bicycle, across the Asian and
African continents' and he is currently in Ghana to create the awareness of
the campaign.
He said, the bicycle ride campaign is also to personally protest against the
policies of the IMF and World Bank which continue to view the debt crisis in
terms of the opportunities for political and economic reasons it offers
them, rather than the urgent human needs.
Mr Harper pointed out that immediate cancellation of the third world debt is
imperative for the development of Africa, adding that four times the budget
allocation for health and education respectively is spent on debt servicing.
He said the continued impoverishment of African peoples is therefore linked
to the insistence by the multilateral lending institutions that debts
incurred by illegitimate and often dictatorial governments like apartheid
regime, be repaid by their democratic successors.
He said the result of these imposed conditions has been the net transfer of
$77 billion from South to North between 1990 and 1997, a reparation of $9 for
every $1 received in real aid.
Mr Kwame Dadzoe of Jubilee 2000 in Ghana, appealed to opinion leaders and
politicians to join the campaign against the debt cancellation.
He said Jubilee 2000 in Ghana has been faced with a number of constraints
including awareness creation due to the unco-operative attitude of
politicians.
Daily Graphic * December 6, 2000 * Michael Donkor * ACCRA
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