Finishing up my second full day in Pittsburgh. I am here with the Save Darfur team for the G-20 Summit. Yesterday, we organized a great policy briefing entitled, “Sudan and the G-20: what the world’s richest countries can do”.
The three other panelists and I had a really interesting conversation on the issue for about an hour. We discussed the various ways that the G-2o countries can collectively support peace and political reform in Sudan. I specifically drew attention to the possible use by the United States and other partners of an internationally-brokered debt relief package for Sudan as innovative new leverage point with the regime in Khartoum. If President Bashir and the National Congress Party truly commit to peace, then debt relief should be on the table. But if they continue to obstruct peace and commit grave human rights abuses, their recent appeals to the international community for relief from their burdensome $34 billion in debt should be roundly ignored. I will be blogging more on this topic tomorrow.
Until then, you can watch a webcasting of the discussion here.
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