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UN Aid Meeting Seeks End To Global South Debt Crisis

Delegates attend a plenary meeting at the UN 4th International Conference on Financing and Development in Seville on Monday (Credit: AFP)

More than 100 nations attending a UN aid conference pledged this week to help defuse the ticking time bomb of developing countries' ballooning debt, but deciding how is proving more divisive.

"The debt burden is crippling the developing world," UN chief Antonio Guterres told the conference in the Spanish city of Seville that reaffirmed support for lifting low-income nations out of their predicament.

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