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CANADA. NATIONAL PRESS THEATRE

1985-0264

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1985-05-24

National Press Theatre

Press conference held by Nigel Martin, Executive Director of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation; Rick Patten, President of the Canadian Council for International Cooperation; and Maurice Strong, Executive Coordinator for the Office of Emergency Operations in Africa. In their opening statements and subsequent question period the following topics are discussed: concern over the preemption of public consultation in the development of Canada's foreign aid policy; the immediate urgency of the famine in Africa; the critical need for new aid resources; Canada's trade policies with less developed countries; the relationship between trade and aid; the International Development Agency's grass roots intervention in poor countries; the proposal by External Affairs Minister Clark for a joint committee of the House of Commons and the Senate to discuss Canadian Canadian International Policy.

AFRICA~CANADA~CANADIAN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE~CANADIAN TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE~DEVELOPING COUNTRIES~DISASTER RELIEF~ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE~INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS~INTERNATIONAL TRADE~TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE ~MARTIN, NIGEL~PATTEN, RICK~STRONG, MAURICE

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