Title: Support for International Debt Forgiveness
ID: EXC061995.19
Committee: Program (report 11)
Citation: Executive Council Minutes, Jun. 12-15, 1995, Bellevue, WA, pp. 45-46.
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Resolved, That the Executive Council meeting in Seattle, WA, June 12-15, 1995, responds to the Rt. Rev. James Ottley's address to this Council, the June 1990 resolution of Executive Council on World Debt and the 1994 General Convention resolution called Jubilee 2000; and be it further

Resolved, That the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church meeting in Seattle, WA, June 12-15, 1995, and having received a report from the Anglican Observer at the United Nations on the crippling effects of international debt, urge President Clinton to encourage the G-7 leaders at their annual meeting beginning today at Halifax, Nova Scotia, to give serious attention to this issue; and be it further

Resolved, That such remedies as cancellation of bilateral, multicultural and commercial debts of developing countries be considered in the spirit of the biblical jubilee year (Leviticus 25:10-17), and that implementation of democratic and socially responsible reform of World Bank and International Monetary Fund policies be undertaken as soon as possible.

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