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". – I tried to explain this. The bilateral debt is relatively easy for the donors to manage; it is their own decision. The Commission is not in a position to tell individual Member States what to do. We have played a crucial role in the most difficult area, namely taking meaningful action on the multilateral debt, and in doing so we have gone far beyond our role as a creditor.
What Ireland is doing is fine. However, I have to say that in 1995, when I was the Danish Minister for Development Cooperation, we announced something similar for the least-developed poor countries. My hesitation about broadening the scope of debt cancellation to, for instance, middle-income countries, is based on the consideration that if we do that we will take money from the least-developed and poorest countries and give it to countries that are relatively much better off. That is not so easy to do in practice. What Ireland is doing is commendable and it might inspire other countries to do something similar. However, the Commission cannot tell Member States to do that."@en1
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