{"id":52900,"date":"2010-02-05T21:51:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.org\/us\/?post_type=one_press&amp;p=52900"},"modified":"2010-02-05T21:51:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:51:22","slug":"one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt","status":"publish","type":"one_press","link":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE Praises U.S. Treasury Announcement to Work with International Partners to Relieve Haiti\u2019s Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.-<\/strong> ONE called today&#8217;s announcement by U.S. Department of Treasury to support comprehensive multilateral relief of Haiti&#8217;s debts &#8220;critical&#8221; in advancing Haiti&#8217;s recovering in the wake of the devastating earthquake in January.\u00a0 U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner&#8217;s announcement comes on the eve of the G7 meeting of finance ministers in Canada where relieving Haiti&#8217;s debt is reported to be on the agenda.<br \/>\n&#8220;ONE commends Secretary Geithner and the Administration for demonstrating leadership to advance debt relief for Haiti.\u00a0 The G7 finance ministers should follow this announcement with commitments of their own to support cancellation this weekend,&#8221; said <strong>ONE&#8217;s President and CEO<\/strong> <strong>David Lane<\/strong>. &#8220;Just as the world community has come together to deliver aid in Haiti&#8217;s time of need, it is equally critical that Haiti not be burdened over the long term with large debts due to a tragedy beyond its control.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Building on this momentum, ONE will deliver a petition tomorrow, at the G7 meeting in Canada, signed by more than 200,000 ONE members urging global creditors to cancel Haiti&#8217;s $1 billion debt and give the country a clean slate by ensuring that new aid comes in the form of grants, not debt-incurring loans,&#8221; <strong>continued Lane<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe United States has already forgiven Haiti&#8217;s past debts and now only gives assistance in the form of grants. But Haiti&#8217;s other creditors, including the Inter-American Development Bank and World Bank-both of which the United States has major influence with-have yet to forgive all of Haiti&#8217;s debt.<\/p>\n<p>In total with ONE partner organizations Avaaz.org, Jubilee USA and Oxfam International, more than 415,000 signatures in all will be delivered tomorrow to Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, host of this week&#8217;s G7 Finance Ministers meeting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"buffer\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Commitment Sets Positive Tone for Debt Relief at G7 Meetings this Weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-52900","one_press","type-one_press","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ONE Praises U.S. Treasury Announcement to Work with International Partners to Relieve Haiti\u2019s Debt - ONE.org US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ONE Praises U.S. Treasury Announcement to Work with International Partners to Relieve Haiti\u2019s Debt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"U.S. Commitment Sets Positive Tone for Debt Relief at G7 Meetings this Weekend.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ONE.org US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ONE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/GA_share_1200x628-768x402-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"402\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ONEinAmerica\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/236ef43a079c36667c3f1de2da8e0838\"},\"headline\":\"ONE Praises U.S. Treasury Announcement to Work with International Partners to Relieve Haiti\u2019s Debt\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-02-05T21:51:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/\"},\"wordCount\":311,\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/\",\"name\":\"ONE Praises U.S. Treasury Announcement to Work with International Partners to Relieve Haiti\u2019s Debt - ONE.org US\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-02-05T21:51:22+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"ONE Praises U.S. Treasury Announcement to Work with International Partners to Relieve Haiti\u2019s Debt\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/\",\"name\":\"ONE.org\",\"description\":\"Driving economic opportunities and healthy lives in Africa\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/236ef43a079c36667c3f1de2da8e0838\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2b4204681b789d34ede86a735f8b6378df901f7f7ab7a9ca89af4670b2bb13b8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2b4204681b789d34ede86a735f8b6378df901f7f7ab7a9ca89af4670b2bb13b8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.one.org\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/stories\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"ONE Praises U.S. Treasury Announcement to Work with International Partners to Relieve Haiti\u2019s Debt - ONE.org US","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"ONE Praises U.S. Treasury Announcement to Work with International Partners to Relieve Haiti\u2019s Debt","og_description":"U.S. Commitment Sets Positive Tone for Debt Relief at G7 Meetings this Weekend.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/","og_site_name":"ONE.org US","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ONE","og_image":[{"width":768,"height":402,"url":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/GA_share_1200x628-768x402-1.png","type":"image\/png"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@ONEinAmerica","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/236ef43a079c36667c3f1de2da8e0838"},"headline":"ONE Praises U.S. Treasury Announcement to Work with International Partners to Relieve Haiti\u2019s Debt","datePublished":"2010-02-05T21:51:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/"},"wordCount":311,"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/","url":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/","name":"ONE Praises U.S. Treasury Announcement to Work with International Partners to Relieve Haiti\u2019s Debt - ONE.org US","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-02-05T21:51:22+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/press\/one-praises-u-s-treasury-announcement-to-work-with-international-partners-to-relieve-haitis-debt\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ONE Praises U.S. Treasury Announcement to Work with International Partners to Relieve Haiti\u2019s Debt"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/","name":"ONE.org","description":"Driving economic opportunities and healthy lives in Africa","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/236ef43a079c36667c3f1de2da8e0838","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2b4204681b789d34ede86a735f8b6378df901f7f7ab7a9ca89af4670b2bb13b8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2b4204681b789d34ede86a735f8b6378df901f7f7ab7a9ca89af4670b2bb13b8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.one.org"],"url":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/stories\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"ONE.org US","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/one_press\/52900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/one_press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/one_press"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/one_press\/52900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=52900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}