G8

EDM number 274 in 2005-06, proposed by Pete Wishart on 07/06/2005.

That this House welcomes the important steps taken by the United Kingdom and the European Union in speeding up the progress towards the millennium development goals; recognises however the ongoing failure of all the G8 participants to meet the United Nations target of 0.7 per cent. of gross national income to be spent on overseas development aid; notes with concern the increasing number of demands added to the promise of fulfilling the aid commitment made through UN Resolution 2626 in 1970 and reiterated in various guises since; calls on the Government to use its upcoming presidency of the EU to convince the EU Commission to drop its demand for reciprocal trade liberalisation in its new partnership agreements with the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, to withdraw its demand that water is included in the General Agreement on Trade in Services, to target a minimum of 70 per cent. of total EU development aid to the least developed countries by 2007 and to endorse fully the objectives of the Make Poverty History campaign.

This motion has been signed by a total of 49 MPs.