41.   Echoing a common theme at the conference, Li also said wealthy nations should forgive debts of their poorer neighbors.

42.   France forgave the debts of Honduras and Nicaragua on Tuesday.

43.   German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has also urged that some debt be forgiven.

44.   German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer was also urging that some debts be forgiven.

45.   Hill conceded that the impact of forgiving the debt on the Australian economy would not be significant.

46.   In addition, Jospin proposed forgiving the debts of cash-strapped developing nations.

47.   Many Russian experts think Moscow might forgive the debts in a trade-off for creating a large, Moscow-led regional community counterbalancing the United States and European Union.

48.   Mogae also appealed to developed nations to forgive African debt.

49.   The huge debts of the developing world can be directly linked to slavery and colonialism, they say, demanding that as a result such debts should be forgiven.

50.   The protesters want world leaders to forgive the debt of poor nations and stop the financing of projects they claim harm the environment or hurt the poor.