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FINLAND: ACTIVISTS SAIL TO G-8 SUMMIT IN 70-YEAR-OLD SHIP.

Publication: Interpress Service
Publication Date: 01-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
by Linus Atarah

HELSINKI, Finland, May 31, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- A ship bearing fair-trade activists has left the shores of Finland and is on the high seas heading toward Germany's Baltic resort of Heiligendamm, where leaders of the world's eight richest countries are scheduled to meet next week.

The crew of 17 activists say their central demand is for leaders from the Group of Eight to address the issue of ecological debt owed to the developing South by the industrialized countries.

They have set sail to Germany for the June 6-8 summit to call attention to that goal. Driven mainly by wind power, the sea voyage will take up to a week, depending on the weather conditions.

"The problem of developing countries' debt has featured prominently in every G-8 summit since the 1990s, but we do not want to speak of Third World debt exclusively in monetary terms,"...

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