[Qui-deu-a-qui] Fwd: [Plataforma Auditoria BCN-CAT] Fwd: [Eurodad debt] Launch of the Norwegian Debt Audit Thursday August 15th

Sab Ago 17 18:14:54 CEST 2013

> Hola a todas!
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> Os paso los primeros resultados de la auditoria de la deuda que ha hecho el gobierno noruego sobre parte de las deudas de las que es acreedor. Se trata de una auditoria institucional y muy diferente a lo que planteamos en la PACD, pero es interesante conocer como avanzan estos procesos. El gobierno noruego encargó la auditoria, a través de una licitación abierta, a la consultora internacional Deloite, y parece ser que los procesos de participación social que prometieron no se han cumplido demasiado. A pesar de todo el informe final concluye que aunque los créditos que se dieron a países empobrecidos años atràs eran legales (consistentes con las normas de entonces) no cumplirian con los estándares que ahora se están discutiendo en Naciones Unidas sobre financiación responsable (un proceso que deriva de las discusiones sobre deuda odiosa y deuda ilegítima). 
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> Os paso el informe, la nota de prensa que han enviado las compañeras de Noruega y la nota de la red Eurodad (todo en inglés). Intentaré traducirlo o hacer un breve que lo explique y se vincule con las notas en inglés. 
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> Inici del missatge reenviat:
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>> El 15/08/2013, a les 18:36, Gina Ekholt <slug en slettgjelda.no> va escriure:
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>>> Dear all,
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>>> Following up on previous e-mails, here is the press release on the launch of the Norwegian debt audit. 
>>> Feel free to circulate it in your networks, it would be great if we could get some international attention on this. 
>>> 
>>> The report itself did not make any specific policy recommendations, but clearly states that the majority of the loans are not in line with today's guidelines nor the UN Principles.
>>> I will get an electronic copy of the report tomorrow, so send me an e-mail if you're interested. It will also be availableon our web page. 
>>> 
>>> Best, 
>>> Gina
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>>> - Old loans do not live up to today’s standards
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>>> Norwegian Coalition for Debt Cancellation Press release, Oslo, 15 August 2013
>>> For immediate release 
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>>> Today is a historic day for international debt justice, as the Norwegian government launches the world’s first audit commissioned by a creditor, which evaluates the debt that developing countries owe to Norway.  - We hope the government will follow up this important report by cancelling illegitimate debt based on creditor co-responsibility, says director of the Norwegian Coalition for Debt Cancellation (SLUG), Gina Ekholt.
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>>> In 2012 the Norwegian government commissioned an official audit to evaluate whether the developing country debt currently owed to Norway resulted from irresponsible lending. During a press conference this morning, the consultant firm Deloitte presented their results from the independent report conducted this summer. The report concludes that the contracts were in line with the guidelines at the time, but many of them do not live up today’s guidelines and the UN Principles to promote responsible lending and borrowing.
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>>> - This is groundbreaking, as it is the first time such an audit has been commissioned by a creditor, breaking with the historical legacy of placing full responsibility for debts on the debtor alone, says Ekholt. – Next step will be to follow up the recommendations from the report on developing the UN Principles and for the Norwegian government to cancel illegitimate debt, Ekholt adds.
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>>> To evaluate the claims, the audit has employed the recently launched principles for promoting responsible lending and borrowing from the UN Conference for Trade and Development (the UNCTAD principles). The Norwegian initiative will demonstrate how the UNCTAD principles can be implemented in practice, and hopefully inspire other countries to follow Norway’s example.
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>>> Parallel to the official audit, SLUG has made a shadow report investigating the loans to Indonesia, Egypt and Myanmar. 
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>>> - The project in Indonesia left the population in the county with debts from projects that never yielded any developmental benefits, and that had been contracted by the illegitimate regime of Suharto, says the author of the report Maria Dyveke Styve. - Norway must now assume creditor responsibility for Indonesia’s debts and cancel it unilaterally and unconditionally, Styve adds.
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>>> Summary of SLUGs recommendations to the Norwegian government:
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>>> Cancel the debts that originate from irresponsible lending. This includes the debts of Indonesia and Egypt.
>>> Implement the UNCTAD Principles to all forms of lending, including lending through the purchase of government bonds.
>>> Promote the UNCTAD Principles internationally, and spur debate on how to best interpret them.
>>> Promote official debt audits internationally and share the Norwegian experience.
>>> Use its membership in multilateral development banks to promote their compliance with responsible finance principles.
>>> Read more:
>>> Exportable? How to make the Norwegian Debt Audit Transferable to Other Countries, By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven (SLUG)
>>> Creditor Responsibility and the Norwegian Ship Export Campaign, By Kjetil G. Abildsnes (SLUG and FORUM)
>>> Eurodad’s Responsible Finance Charter, Eurodad 2011
>>> Is Indonesia’s debt to Norway illegitimate? By Magnus Flacké (SLUG) and Nikmah Khoirun (INFID)
>>> Unctad’s Principles on Promoting Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing, UNCTAD 2012.
>>> 
>>> Contact:
>>> Oslo: Gina Ekholt, Director of SLUG, the Norwegian Coalition for Debt Cancellation:
>>> +47 959 70 226
>>> 
>>> London: Tim Jones, Policy Officer at Jubilee Debt Campaign:
>>> +44 (0)20 7324 4725 or +44(0)7817 628196
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>>> Brussels: Bodo Ellmers, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at Eurodad:
>>> +32 2 894 46 51
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> Eurodad Press Release
> Brussels, 15 August 2013
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> For immediate release
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> Cancel dictator debt!
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> Norwegian debt audit puts new pressure on European creditors
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> A Norwegian debt audit report published today in Oslo find that past Norwegian lending practices were not compliant with the current United Nations principles on responsible lending. The audit assessed the legitimacy and responsibility of Norwegian loans to dictatorships and autocratic regimes in countries including Egypt, Indonesia and Myanmar/Burma. This first ever creditor audit of loans to developing countries aims to improve Norway’s future lending practices. The Norwegian Coalition for Debt Cancellation, a Eurodad member, called on the Norwegian government to cancel the illegitimate loans immediately.
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> Eurodad and its member organisations from across Europe have been watching European governments’ lending practices for decades: “We know many cases where European governments provided loans to autocratic regimes and dictators and helped them to stay in power. European loans financed the exports of weapons made in Europe, which, in many cases, are used to oppress populations. European export credits finance the dumping of overpriced and inadequate European products in poor countries”, says Bodo Ellmers, an expert for debt and responsible finance at the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad). “Often such loans are even declared as aid.”
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> The problems with irresponsible lending are well-known to the European institutions in Brussels. The European Commission, in a recent communication on financing for development, called on “all actors to apply responsible lending and borrowing principles”. However, it did not explain how this will be achieved in practice.
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> “It is obviously an embarrassment for the European Union that the only European nation that is currently making credible moves towards more responsible lending is Norway – which is not even an EU Member State,” says Ellmers. It is now time for the EU to catch up, and to conduct similar debt audits as the Norwegians. “We know that some European governments have skeletons in their cupboards. Citizens in Europe and beyond have the right to know the true picture,” stresses Ellmers.
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> Developing countries that managed to liberate themselves from dictators, as recently happened in Egypt or Tunisia, continue to suffer from high debt burdens caused by illegitimate debt. Eurodad is calling on these illegitimate debts to be cancelled immediately and without conditions  “It is long overdue that all European nations should cancel the dictators’ and other illegitimate debts of poor countries,” says Ellmers. “We need to make sure that these young democracies and poor countries can have a fresh start.”  Illegitimate debt impedes poor countries’ development and contributes to the conflicts and instability that we see today in countries such as Egypt.
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> Cancelling illegitimate debt is also key to making European aid to poor countries effective. Currently, new aid to poor countries often finances the repayment of illegitimate debt: “European aid is often just a bailout package for irresponsible lenders”, says Ellmers. “This is a classic problem of collective action: good donors’ aid finances debt repayments to dodgy creditors.  The European Parliament and the Commission must ensure that responsible financing becomes binding for everyone in the EU.
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> Contact details:
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> For interviews and further information, contact:
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> Brussels: Bodo Ellmers – Senior Policy Officer, European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad)
> Email: bellmers en eurodad.org; Tel: +32 488 872014
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> Oslo: Gina Ekholt – Director, Slett U-landsgjelda (SLUG) – The Norwegian Coalition for Debt Cancellation
> Email: slug en slettgjelda.no; Tel: +47 911 37 078
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> Notes to the editor:
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> Eurodad (the European Network on Debt and Development) is a network of 48 non-governmental organisations from 19 European countries working on issues related to debt, development finance and poverty reduction. Since it was founded in 1989, Eurodad has been campaigning for the cancellation of illegitimate debt and unsustainable debt.
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> Norwegian debt audit: In 2012 the Norwegian government commissioned an official audit to evaluate whether the developing country debt currently owed to Norway resulted from irresponsible lending. The audit that was conducted by the consultant firm Deloitte has employed the UNCTAD Principles for Promoting Responsible Lending and Borrowing to evaluate the claims.
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> The European Commission’s Communication COM(2013) 531 final, entitled Beyond 2015: towards a comprehensive and integrated approach to financing poverty eradication and sustainable development, published on 16 July 2013, underlined “the need for all actors to apply responsible lending and borrowing principles to ensure debt sustainability”.
> Link: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/what/development-policies/financing_for_development/documents/financing_for_dev_2013_communication_en.pdf
> Responsible financing:  European non-governmental organisations have developed a set of principles to ensure that development loans to developing countries are responsible and effective. For more information, download The Eurodad Responsible Finance Charter.
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> Link: http://eurodad.org/uploadedfiles/whats_new/reports/charter_final_23-11.pdf
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