The British Medical Association has written to prime minister Tony Blair urging him to cancel all the unpayable debt owed to the British government by the world's poorest countries. The BMA, which is supporting the Jubilee 2000 campaign, said it hoped Mr Blair would match and then exceed US president Bill Clinton's lead in cancelling all its unilateral debt.
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