the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and Canada. "We are sending a message to finance ministers that we want them to listen to our thousands of supporters. We want them to put debt firmly on the agenda for the G8 summit," said Bruce Whitehead, spokesman for Make Poverty History, a coalition of 223 anti-poverty agencies, unions and religious groups supporting debt forgiveness for the world's poorest countries. The British want to ready a poverty relief programme, which includes debt write off and new aid initiatives, for world leaders to discuss at a summit in Scotland this summer. --SP 0040 Local Time 2140 GMT
