World debates tsunami debt deal
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The Paris Club of rich lending nations is to discuss a proposed debt freeze for tsunami-affected countries.
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World leaders gathered here for an emergency summit with the United Nations saying aid pledges since the Asian tsunami disaster were near four billion dollars as the International Monetary Fund offered one billion dollars in aid.
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[World News]: United Nations, Dec 28 : A number of European nations and international organisations Monday began to provide aid for the Asian countries struck by powerful tsunamis.
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The Paris Club of creditor nations  reached an agreement Wednesday to freeze debt repayments of  countries hit by the Asian tsunami, the Club's president said.
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LONDON  - Britain and Australia followed Japan and the United States in pledging dramatic increases in emergency aid for victims of the tsunami disaster in Asia as the world community struggled to cope with its mushrooming fallout.
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Italy called on Group of Eight rich nations on Thursday to discuss a joint response to the Indian Ocean tsunami catastrophe as moves to grant debt
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World leaders met on Thursday to  discuss tsunami aid, the task's urgency underlined by a  chilling warning that the death toll could double to about  300,000 unless action was taken this week to prevent disease.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Rich creditor nations  threw a lifeline to the millions of survivors of the Asian  tsunami by agreeing on Wednesday to freeze debt repayments  across the affected region.
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The world's seven wealthiest nations said Saturday they were willing to take on up to 100 percent of the debt owed by some of the poorest countries. But they failed to agree on a British plan to boost international aid by &#36;50 billion a year.
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World leaders promise an Indian Ocean tsunami early warning system after being urged to honour cash pledges.
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Australia and Germany pledged more than $1 billion in tsunami aid yesterday, raising the global tally to more than $3 billion and prompting a senior European official to warn against nations being drawn into a ...
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Britain, which holds the presidency of the G8 bloc of leading industrialized nations, wants to reach agreement by mid-January on reducing the debt of the countries hit by the tsunami in Asia, the Financial ...
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A partial list of the countries pledging aid for tsunami victims totaling more than &#36;1 billion. The figures are based on U.N. data and official announcements by the nations.
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The United Nations said that aid promised from around the world in response to Asia's tsunami disaster was now up to four billion dollars, as Australia, Germany and the IMF pledged yet more cash ahead of a key donors' conference.
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CREDITOR countries in the Club of Paris, which includes Australia, are to discuss public debt owed by countries hit by the quake disaster in Asia at a meeting planned in Paris for January 12, a source for the creditors said today.
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The chancellor presses the G8 to freeze all debts owed by countries hit by the Asian tsunami disaster, the BBC learns.
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Wednesday that Germany would propose a debt moratorium for tsunami-hit nations Indonesia and Somalia when the Paris Club of sovereign lenders next meets on Jan. 20.