GERMANY: SCHROEDER EMPHASISES LINK BETWEEN POVERTY AND TERRORISM.

Record ID: 352139

  • Title: GERMANY: SCHROEDER EMPHASISES LINK BETWEEN POVERTY AND TERRORISM.
  • Date: 10th July 2005
  • Summary: (EU) HANOVER, GERMANY (JULY 9, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GERMAN CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER SEATED; CAMERAS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS; SCHROEDER WALKING TO LECTERN 2. APPLAUDING PARTY MEMBERS AND EDELGARD BULMAHN, SECRETARY OF EDUCATION 3. SOUNDBITE (German) GERMAN CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER SAYING: "There are some who think they should
  • Embargoed: 25th July 2005 13:00
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  • Location: HANOVER, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVADD93JZ2CMO9KC48ES3CXUIOLG
  • Story Text: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder emphasizes
    connection between poverty and terrorism.



    A day after having returned from the G-8 summit in
    Gleneagles, German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder repeated
    his announcement of Western countries standing united
    against terrorism after the London bombings.

    Schroeder said on Saturday (July 9) in Hanover that he
    fully supported the decision of the G8 to write off debts
    of many African countries and to increase development aid.

    Schroeder emphasized there was a strong connection
    between poverty and terrorism.

    "When I say there is a correlation between one
    (poverty) and the other (terrorism), I do not mean that
    those terrorists could base themselves on a political
    concept. But there are masses of people in the third world,
    poor and starving people, who might come to if not to
    support but at least to tolerate this kind of terrorism",
    said Schroeder after having been elected top candidate of
    his Social Democratic party in Lower Saxony for the
    upcoming federal election.




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