Jubilee 2000 seeks action before 2001 but doubts Japan's sincerity Staff writer After two years of vain efforts to get the Group of Seven countries to cancel all debt owed by Third World countries, the organizers of Jubilee 2000 plan one last push at the upcoming Okinawa summit.
With only six months of the campaign remaining, however, they are not optimistic that the Okinawa Group of Eight summit will produce any new initiatives.
Earlier this week, the London-based Jubilee 2000 campaign issued a report criticizing G7 leaders for failing to tackle the debt cancellation issue, attacking the Okinawa summit as little more than a tropical vacation. Leaders of the Jubilee Japan 2000 campaign also handed the report to Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa on Thursday.