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On
Post 2015,
Debt
Sustainability
Cut Slammed,
LDCs Say Being
Sold Out
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
August 1 --
Past the
deadline for
the Post-2015
development
agenda text,
Kenyan
Ambassador to
the UN
Macharia Kamau
kicked off
what was
support to be
the past
session,
saying it
would take a
couple of
hours.
South Africa
for G77 began,
saying for
example that
debt
sustainability
should go back
in. The
Maldives for
AOSIS and
Belize for
CARICOM also
spoke for
re-inclusion.
The European
Union
followed,
calling for
the deletion
of Paragraph
44 saying the
International
Monetary Fund
should
“respect the
policy space
of each
country.”
Benin upset
the apple
cart, for the
Least
Developed
Countries,
saying that
the LDCs were
being sold
out,
through-out
the UN system.
Ambassador
Kamau stayed
cool, joking
“what would I
do without
you?” There is
not enough
laughter at
the UN.
Before
the session
started, Inner
City Press
spoke with
some who
stayed to
defend
Paragraph 29
against
unilateral
economic
measures --
sanctions --
and others
opposed (and
others for)
Paragraph 33
on foreign
occupation.
Could this
deal be
reached? Watch
this site.
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