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[Audrey Whitefield <a.whitefield@quest.org.uk>]

Sept. 3, 1997
ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE
Canon Jim Rosenthal, Director of Communications
Anglican Communion Office
London, England

[97.8.5.6]

SOUTHERN AFRICA: PRIMATE TO HOLD SUMMIT ON POVERTY

(CPSA) The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Revd Njongonkulu
Ndungane, has announced that he is planning to hold a major summit
meeting on the eradication of poverty in the first part of next year.

Announcing this at the launch of a Poverty Eradication Reference Group
in Cape Town, Archbishop Ndungane said the summit's main objective will
be to put in place practical and sustainable strategies for the
eradication of poverty in southern Africa during the decade 1997 to
2006.

The Archbishop was one of several speakers at the launch, including
government, NGO and trade union representatives, as well as speakers
from the United Nations Development Programme.

Archbishop Ndungane said that since his enthronement in September last
year, when he first issued the clarion call to focus on poverty, he had
had occasion to return again and again to the issue, and it had become
an urgent priority for many.

He had also given his support to the international campaign to lobby for
the cancellation of debt of developing countries, an effort that had
gained momentum through the Jubilee 2000 campaign.