The G8 called upon to deliver on its promises of aid to Africa
June 25, 2010 – 6:05 pmThe U.S. and British officials have invited representatives of other major industrialized nations to honor their commitments in terms of development aid despite their tight budgetary situations.
The Canadian chairmanship of the G8, which met Friday in Huntsville in a lake in the countryside 200 miles north of Toronto, decided to put this meeting under the banner of respect for commitments on ODA development.
Indeed, the additional $ 50 billion that the group had undertaken to provide annually before 2010 at the 2005 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, 18 billion are still missing the call.
According to the group fight against poverty ONE, which controls this aid, Canada, the United States and Great Britain have provided the promised sums. By contrast, Italy has not fulfilled its financial commitments, however, that the amounts claimed by Germany, France and Japan have proven inferior to their ads.
"I think it's really painful to see that leaders of great nations make commitments and do not take and we must therefore ensure that it will happen," he told reporters with British Prime Minister David Cameron.
"We have made promises at Gleneagles.We should respect these promises, "he said.
CREDIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY
The White House issued a statement in which Barack Obama also called on the G8 more transparent and more responsive to their actions.
'The president believes that the G8's credibility rests on the willingness of its members to honor their commitments by seamlessly share their progress and identifying areas where further efforts are required, can you read this statement.
The World Bank has warned that a further reduction of aid may erase the progress made so far in developing countries and lead to more people in poverty.
She stressed that the resources of poorer countries have also been undermined by two years of crisis in the global economy.
"We must recognize that we have not taken any commitments," admitted the president of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, just hours before the opening of the summit."If we want to achieve, it will speed up," he had told reporters.
The Canadian chairmanship also wanted discuss ways to involve the major emerging economies in the governance of the planet and decided to combine the work of the Africa Summit in Huntsville.
Seven African countries – Algeria, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria and Senegal – have been invited by Canada, which decided to focus in the G8 on two of the eight "Millennium Goals" adopted in 2005 to fight against poverty in the world, those concerning maternal and child health.
MILLENNIUM
"This is an area in which the entire international community is lagging behind," do you recognize a French source.
Canada is expected to announce an investment of one billion dollars for these programs.Other countries should follow.
The host country, also want to address the issue of Haiti's reconstruction after the devastating earthquake of January 12, invited the representatives of Haiti.
Haiti, and two other countries – Colombia and Jamaica – were involved with the Africans present at another session of G8 Labour devoted Friday afternoon to "emerging threats against security," including drug routes to the developed countries that transit today more and more by the West Africa.
"GASPILLOMÈTRE"
"This is a growing concern, a major source of regional destabilization that must be addressed in partnership," said one French source.
The G8 summit will complete them by Saturday morning discussion on topics of current international tensions, Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan as well as blocking the peace process in the Middle East.
The G20 will take over late Saturday afternoon in Toronto for a summit dominated by the issue of exit strategies of economic crisis, a source of differences between the U.S. and its European allies.
Extensive security measures have been implemented in the economic capital of Canada, pending several forthcoming events.
Budgets for the safety of G8 and G20 have been officially estimated at 930 million Canadian dollars (around 900 million U.S. dollars), sparking a controversy that has seized the Liberal Party, the main opposition to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
It was launched on its website a "gaspillomètre" (here) after having calculated that every second cost 4,928.32 dollars.
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