GC34 International Debt Crisis (1992I522)

That the 34th General Council

  1. Call upon the Government of Canada to use its influence in and with the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank, to support alternatives and proposals from developing countries which could so alter structural adjustment programs that priority would be given to responding to human needs rather than debt repayment;

  2. Encourage congregations and individual United Church members to make similar representations to their elected political representatives.

 

1992 ROP, pp. 152, 625

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