Mathias Cormann calls for greater foreign aid despite role in Australian cuts
by Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspon from World news | The Guardian on (#5Y47T)
OECD leader urges increase despite previously defending Australia's cuts while finance minister
Mathias Cormann has called on developed countries such as Australia to increase foreign aid funding, despite his previous role in a government that shaved billions of dollars from such assistance.
Cormann, the former Australian finance minister who now leads the Paris-based OECD, said he wanted to deliver a very strong message" to donor countries to increase official development assistance and certainly not cut it".
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