Ylva Hernlund,
Despite the late notice and the fact that I do know
anyone residing in Michigan's 11th Congressional
District to contact Congressman Rogers,my American
colleague at the African Development Bank will most
certainly hear from me first thing in the morning.The
HIPC Initiative cannot realised its desired effect if
the G-7 doesn't put its money where its mouth is.The
African Development Bank,despite its limited
resources, has honoured it pledge to HIPC since last
year.Why not the United States of America? Why?
I join Ylva in encouraging G-L members to call their
representatives,despite the late notice, to honour
their Cologne pledge by voting money for the African
Debt Supplemental.
Meanwhile, I thank you for putting me on the alert.
sidi sanneh
sidi sanneh
--- Ylva Hernlund <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:53:47 -0800
> From: David Mozer <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> To: wa-afr <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [wa-afr-network] FW: URGENT ACTION: Call
> Congress for Africa Debt
> Supplimental
>
> ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> Organization: Bread for the World
> To: "Dear Friends of Africa" <[log in to unmask]>,
> Date sent: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:55:38 -0500
> Subject: URGENT ACTION ALERT!!!!!
> Send reply to: [log in to unmask]
> Priority: urgent
>
> URGENT ACTION ALERT ON DEBT RELIEF
>
> The US House of Representatives will take floor
> action on the supplemental
> request for the Fiscal Year 2000 budget on Thursday,
> March 16. Congress must
> appropriate $210m in supplemental funds RIGHT NOW in
> order to make good on
> the Clinton Administration's pledge at the Cologne
> Summit of the G-7 rich
> countries to start the process of debt cancellation
> for the Heavily Indebted
> Poor Countries (HIPC). Three-fourths of the HIPC
> countries are in
> Sub-Saharan Africa.
>
> In spite of all of the President's commitments at
> Cologne and all of the
> Africa rhetoric in Washington in recent weeks, there
> is ZERO money for
> Africa in the supplemental request that was just
> sent to the House printer.
> At this late date, only action by a few senior
> Republican members of the
> leadership and appropriations committee can change
> this situation.
>
> We urge you to make the time to check the following
> list of key
> Members of Congress who might be able to still make
> a change in
> this situation before it is too late.
>
> If you or other contacts you can make are in the
> home state of any of these
> Members please CALL their offices not later than
> Wednesday March 8, 2000 and
> tell tham that you want the $210m US contribution
> for the HIPC Trust Fund
> included in the Supplemental. And remind them that
> every dollar the US
> appropriates for multilateral debt relief will bring
> $20 additional dollars
> from other countries.
>
> CALL (202) 225-3121 and ask for the Members office.
>
> Thanks!
>
> KEY MEMBERS ON THIS URGENT DEBT ISSUE
>
> STATE DISTRICT NAME
> R-AL 1 Callahan
> R-AL 4 Aderholt
> R-AZ 5 Kolbe
> R-AR 4 Dickey
> R-CA 40 Lewis
> R-CA 48 Packard
> R-CA 51 Cunningham
> R-FL 10 Young
> R-FL 13 Miller
> R-GA 1 Kingston
> R-IL 10 Porter
> R-IL 14 Hastert
> R-IA 5 Latham
> R-KS 4 Tiahrt
> R-KY 3 Northup
> R-KY 5 Rogers
> R-MI 11 Knollenberg
> R-MS 1 Wicker
> R-MO 8 Emerson
> RNH 1 Sununu
> R-NJ 11 Frelinghuysen
> R-NM 2 Skeen
> R-NY 25 Walsh
> R-NC 11 Taylor
> R-OH 7 Hobson
> R-OH 16 Regula
> R-OK 5 Istook
> R-PA 5 Peterson
> R-TN 3 Wamp
> R-TX 12 Granger
> R-TX 22 DeLay
> R-TX 23 Bonilla
> R-TX 26 Armey
> R-VA 10 Wolf
> R-WA 5 Nethercutt
>
>
> Ray Almeida
> Bread for the World
> 1100 Wayne Ave., Suite 1000
> Siver Spring, MD 20910
> (tel) 301-608-2400 ext. 232
> (fax) 301-608-2401
> (e-mail) [log in to unmask]
> (web site) http://www.bread.org
>
> Reposted by request to the Advocacy Network for
> Africa (ADNA).
>
>
>
>
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