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G7 Forgives Haiti's Bilateral Loans To Support Aid Effort
At a press conference on Saturday, "Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he and his G-7 colleagues would forgive bilateral loans extended to poverty-stricken Haiti, which estimates it could have lost 200,000 residents in the major earthquake that hit last month," Dow Jones Newswires reports. Flaherty also said Haiti's multilateral debt should be nullified as soon as possible (Thiruvengadam, 2/6).
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