Oil producing nations should use their wealth to help Africa, Chancellor Gordon Brown has urged. The oil producers had done well out of a recent rise in oil prices, he told GMTV's Sunday programme.
The government's plan for Africa is facing a crucial week with ministers seeking to build support ahead of July's G8 summit at Gleneagles.
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"I would like to see the oil producing states, the countries that have done well out of the rise in oil prices, being willing to make a contribution also to the new development agenda. "And particularly to debt relief and to international aid, and perhaps by a contribution to the World Bank trust fund that would help relieve debts," Mr Brown said.
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Mr Brown said he was confident their ambitions would be realised, especially because they would "have the Americans on board". Britain would be prepared to push on with the international finance facility even if the Americans rejected that part of the plan, he added.
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