<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>En anglais...</div><div><br></div><div>Mgr Pierre<br><br>Envoyé de mon iPad</div><div><br>Début du message transféré :<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>Expéditeur:</b> Anglican Communion News Service <<a href="mailto:acnslist@anglicancommunion.org">acnslist@anglicancommunion.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 5 juillet 2011 21:37:35 HAEC<br><b>Destinataire:</b> <a href="mailto:bishop@tec-europe.org"><a href="mailto:bishop@tec-europe.org">bishop@tec-europe.org</a></a><br><b>Objet:</b> <b>ACNS4903 Archbishop of Burundi tells UK: "Don't make us an aid orphan"</b><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Archbishop of Burundi tells UK: "Don't make us an aid orphan"<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">By Laura Payne, Anglican Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Archbishop of Burundi today (Tuesday) gave a passionate appeal to the UK government to restore its bilateral funding to Burundi – one of the poorest and most fragile countries in the world.
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The call came when he gave evidence at the International Development Select Committee’s enquiry into the UK government’s decision to end its bilateral aid programme for Burundi and shut the DfID office in Bujumbura.
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">He backed his call for funding with a warning that the security in Bujumbura was difficult and the country risked slipping into conflict only two years after the final peace agreement was signed with the last remaining
rebel movement. The Most Reverend Bernard Ntahoturi travelled to the UK with the Anglican Alliance which brings together the development, relief and advocacy work of the Anglican family of churches and agencies.
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">When the UK closes its development office in Bujumbura next year, Burundi will be the only country in the Great Lakes and East Africa not receiving UK bilateral aid. The UK hopes Burundi will trade its way out
of poverty through ‘TradeMark East Africa’, an initiative to increase commerce between the countries of the region, part-funded by the British. The Archbishop applauded the programme but explained that trade, although vital, is no silver bullet.
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Giving evidence after the Archbishop Stephen O’Brien MP, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for the Department for International Development, justified the government’s decision to withdraw aid. He said that
the UK £12 million programme was too small to make impact and would be taken over by other donors. He said that there had been no objections made during the DfID consultations on the proposals and denied that the populated of Burundi would suffer as a result
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Church of Burundi and the Anglican Alliance are considering the next steps in their joint efforts to get the UK government to reengage with bilateral support for Burundi.
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