Cancel Haiti’s Debt and Ensure Poor Areas Don’t Miss Out on Reconstruction, Oxfam Urges Foreign Ministers

by Gary Kopycinski on January 26, 2010

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HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2010. Foreign ministers meeting in Montreal on Monday should agree to cancel Haiti’s outstanding $890 million international debt in the wake of the devastating earthquake, international agency Oxfam said today.

Debt cancellation is one of Oxfam’s five priorities for Haitian reconstruction. The other elements are:

Support for Haitian farmers and small business;
Ensure poor areas benefit from cash grants for poor areas to speed economic recovery;
Support for civil society and the Haitian…