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Germany's Merkel promises Bono that Africa will play major role at G-8 summit
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday assured U2 singer and social activist Bono that the future of Africa will play a major role when Group of Eight leaders meet in June, the government said.
Bono met Merkel at the chancellery to press his call for the continent to remain high up the agenda of the world's leading industrial countries. Germany, which chairs the G-8, will host their annual summit in the Baltic sea resort of Heiligendamm.
Merkel pledged that Africa will play "an outstanding role," with a focus on issues such as improving the climate for investment, a government spokeswoman said on customary condition of anonymity.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair made debt relief for Africa a key issue when he hosted the G-8 summit in 2005, and has called for a redoubling of momentum this year.
Bono has echoed that call, saying at January's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum: "Africa is this magical, extraordinary continent and we've got to start describing it more as an opportunity than a burden."
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/17/europe/EU-GEN-Germany-Merkel-Bono.php
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday assured U2 singer and social activist Bono that the future of Africa will play a major role when Group of Eight leaders meet in June, the government said.
Bono met Merkel at the chancellery to press his call for the continent to remain high up the agenda of the world's leading industrial countries. Germany, which chairs the G-8, will host their annual summit in the Baltic sea resort of Heiligendamm.
Merkel pledged that Africa will play "an outstanding role," with a focus on issues such as improving the climate for investment, a government spokeswoman said on customary condition of anonymity.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair made debt relief for Africa a key issue when he hosted the G-8 summit in 2005, and has called for a redoubling of momentum this year.
Bono has echoed that call, saying at January's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum: "Africa is this magical, extraordinary continent and we've got to start describing it more as an opportunity than a burden."
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/17/europe/EU-GEN-Germany-Merkel-Bono.php
YES! That's a good start!!! 
He's like the widow in the court of Jesus's parable: the old woman who went to court every day and pressed her case...ordinarily being a poor widow she'd never have had a snowflake's chance in hell with the miserly Sanhedrin, but the judge got so sick of her that one day he just gave her what he wanted to get rid of her. I'm sure Bono very much has that parable in mind. I only wish that *sigh* he was at least 10 yrs younger so world leaders and Congress would have to put up with him longer.
