It is too difficult for a country to qualify for this program and it provides too little relief, which is often too late. Of the 41 HIPCs that are listed by the World Bank only 8 qualify for the Bank's relief initiative. We strongly recommend that Zambia and Honduras, at least, will quickly receive clearance as eligible for the HIPC initiative. We appealed specifically to the governments of the United States, Germany, Japan, France and Italy to alleviate the debt relief, improve the HIPC Initiative by shortening the time frame, broadening eligibility, redefining debt sustainability, providing more relief and consult the civil society on the conditions for relief, link debt cancellation with investment in human development, ensure that decisions on debt relief are made in a transparent way, such as having a policy of participation by beneficiary groups in the project approval cycle, change the structure of international financial relations to a framework for fair and equal relationships between debtors and creditors. In our statement, we expressed satisfaction for the United Nations initiative to call a UN Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, which was held in Rome, on 15 June - 17 July 1998.
Global justice demands that such crimes be subject to the law.
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