“It is essential to increase international aid, write off debt and modify the rules of international trade so that the developing countries have access to markets and opportunities for growth through trade”: the appeal is made by the Primate of the Catholic Church in Scotland, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, to the British government on the occasion of a message sent to the Conference on justice in trade held in recent weeks in Livingston (Scotland) by SCIAF (Scottish Catholic International Aid Organization) on behalf of the bishops of Scotland. “The government continued O’Brien promised to allocated 0.7% of GDP to international aid in 1970. In 2002 the figure allocated was only 0.31%. When will it keep its promise?”.
