Debt relief is urgent.
We have to ask, however, why progress in resolving the debt problem is still so slow. It is the poor who pay the cost of indecision and delay. The House Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee is scheduled to vote on a foreign aid spending bill for FY2001 next Tuesday, June 13. Debt relief for poor countries will be one of the principal matters under consideration. May. However, the Senate leadership has decided to defer floor action until the House has acted on its version of the bill.