Jubilee 2000: Politics: Who's Who

If you don't know who your local MP is, you can find out in the UK by phoning the House of Commons Public Information Office on 0171 219 4272 or by visiting http://www.parliament.uk/commons/cminfo.htm

United States House of Reps/Senate
Washington DC 20510

and visit http://www.congress.org to find out more details

Prime Minister Jean Chretien
Suite 309-S
Center Bloc
House of Commons
111 Wellington St
Ottawa
Ontario K1A 0A2
CANADA
pm@pm.gc.ca

Paul Martin
Minister of Finance
House of Commons
Room 515S Centre Block
Ottawa
Ontario K1A 0A6
Canada
pmartin@fin.gc.ca

President Jacques Chirac
Monsieur le Président de la République
Palais de l’Elysée
55, rue du faubourg Saint-Honoré
75008 - Paris
email page www.elysee.fr/mel/mel_.htm

Prime Minister Lionel Jospin
Prime Minister’s Office
57 Rue de Varennes
75700
Paris
France

Christian Sautter
Ministere de l'economie, des finances et de l'industrie
139 Rue De Bercy
75572 Paris
Cedex 12
FRANCE

Hans Eichel
Federal Minister of Finance
Postfach 1308
D-53003 Bonn
GERMANY
Poststelle@bmf.bund.de

Giuliano Amato
Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri
Palazzo Chigi
Piazza Colonna 370
00187 Roma
ITALY
presidente@palazzochigi.it

Prime Mnister Yoshiro Mori
Prime Minister’s office
2-3-1 Nagata-cho
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 100- 0014
Japan
jpm@kantei.go.jp

Mr Miyazawa
Minister of Finance
1-1 Kasumigaseki 3-chome
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, JAPAN
info@mof.go.jp

Gordon Brown
Chancellor of the Exchequer
HM Treasury
Parliament Street
London SW1P 3AG
e-mail: info@hm-treasury.gov.uk

United States

William Jefferson Clinton
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, D.C 20500
USA
president@whitehouse.gov

US Secretary of the Treasury, Larry Summers
Department of Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20220
USA
Email: OPCMail@do.treas.gov

The Managing Director of the IMF
Mr Michel Camdessus
International Monetary Fund
H Street NW
Washington
DC 20009
USA
publicaffairs@imf.org

Governments gauge public opinion from the letters they receive about different issues. Use this letter as a basis for your own, or simply write one yourself. The more you can use your own words, the better. If you get a significant response, please do forward it to Jubilee 2000 Coalition, PO Box 100, London SE1 7RT.

Dear [name of your MP] or [name of Senator] or [Michael Camdessus, IMF Director]

I am writing to express my concern about the terrible burden of Third World debt on many poor countries around the world. The lives of people in many countries struggling to pay back their debt are made a misery by their poverty which grows from year to year.

I am supporting the Jubilee 2000 movement, which proposes cancellation of the backlog of unpayable debt of the poorest countries by the year 2000, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa. This would give a fresh start to those in deep debt, but as it would be a one-off, associated with the millennium, it wouldn't set a precedent for repeated cancellation of debts.

Furthermore I believe that the existing process for dealing with indebted countries is unfair. It is driven entirely by creditors who are not neutral in the negotiations for debt relief. Indeed they play the role of plaintiff, jury and judge. I want an end to this injustice.

[last paragraph for MP]
I would be grateful if you could pass this letter on to the (Chancellor) and let me know if you would agree to campaign in Parliament for more extensive measures for Third World debt remission.

[last paragraph for Senator or IMF Director]
I would be grateful if you would inform me as to what further measures you will take to address the debt crisis.

Yours sincerely [name]