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Saturday 20 February 2010

United Nations Development Program (UNDP) - Friday and Saturday Morning

Unique on the KCL campus in being fully convened and in session at 18:15 on Friday evening, by the conclusion of discussions that evening the first topic, “The Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals” had been chosen for discussion on Saturday. Three working papers were debated on Saturday morning, and the paper which enjoyed the most signatories, with 28 of 70 delegates, advocated the freezing of foreign debt repayments. Scruples were perhaps inevitably raised by the American delegation, which suggested that the World Bank had already made provisions for the freezing of debt repayments. The Russian delegate managed to cause a ripple of laughs when he commented that “the Russian delegation would like to congratulate the authors of this working paper... of which we are one,”. Early in the afternoon a draft resolution with eight sponsors was proposed by the USA, which recommended a new framework for aid distribution. It fell, however, at the first hurdle, and failed even to enter into discussion.

By Alex Webb

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