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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Heather Stewart

Starmer urged to attend UN summit and back plans to tackle global debt crisis

A headshot of Keir Starmer on on blurred background of leaves
A new UN intergovernmental process to tackle the debt crisis in the global south has been proposed. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

More than 80 charity leaders and campaigners have written to Keir Starmer urging him to attend a UN global development conference and back plans to reduce the debt payments made by poor countries.

World leaders including the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, are expected at the Financing for Development conference – known as FfD4 - in Seville later this month.

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