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Postcard
Secretary of State
Department for International Development
1 Palace Street
London SWI E 5HE
Dear Secretary of State,
I welcome the progress on debt cancellation in 2005, and your acceptance that conditions attached to aid have been harmful. But debt cancellation still
comes with damaging strings attached. In return for debt relief, poor countries must still privatise services, still cut public spending, and still harm their own farmers and producers by opening their markets.
These strings must be cut: they hurt poor people, undermine democracy and delay vital debt relief. Debts should be cancelled because they are unjust and unpayable, and countries should account to their own people for how they spend their money. I urge you to:
• Cancel all unjust and unpayable debt;
• Use your influence at the World Bank and IMF to stop them imposing these
harmful conditions on debt cancellation;
• Deliver UK debt cancellation without reference to these conditions.
Yours sincerely,
Signed
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