7 world’s richest nations expressed shared with Haiti, which has the poorest nation, now getting poorer after this disaster as an earthquake killed 200,000 people.
Creditors of G7 pledge to remove all debts for Haiti, according to announcement at the meeting of ministers Finance and bank taking place in central Canada. Canada Finance Minister, Mr Jim Flaherty promised to persuade more creditors outside groups have similar actions. “Multilateral debt should be abolished,” Canadian Finance Minister speech.
According to statistics given at the meeting, is at least one million people need help Haiti after 7 Richter scale earthquake in mid-January, killing over 200,000 people.
After the earthquake, Haiti has more poverty than this poor and need assistance from the international community. Photo: AP
Although no exact number, the amount of bilateral debt Haiti are the countries in the G7 group is quite small. Largest bilateral creditors of Venezuela and Haiti is Taiwan, not the group. Block G7 includes Canada, USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.
At the meeting, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcomed the decision. He deleted the entire debt to Haiti earlier. He said: “Haiti has been buried in the rubble. They are suffering again buried in debt.
Even before the disaster, the Haitian capital was ranked the poorest western hemisphere. Feedback in June and recently, IMF, World Bank and the United States has removed $ 1.2 billion in total 1.9 billion in debt that they Haiti. That action is in debt relief program for extremely poor countries subject.
