NGO confab calling for debt cancellation opens in Naha

NGO confab calling for debt cancellation opens in Naha

NAHA, Japan, July 19 Kyodo - Jubilee 2000, a nongovernmental organization calling for the cancellation of debts held by least-developed nations, opens a conference in Naha on July 19 ahead of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit scheduled to begin two days later in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture.

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