Message to the G8 Summit at Gleneagles, Scotland July 6, 2005

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In this message, Nelson Mandela directs his words to each of the G8, the eight most powerful countries in the world. He pleads with them to make the right decision, the decision to end poverty and free one billion people from its tyranny.

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I am writing to you as one of eight most powerful leaders in the world. As leaders of the major industrialized democracies, you are used to having to take hard decisions and make difficult political choices, balancing the equally valid but conflicting desires of different people. At Gleneagles next month, at the G8 Summit, you will be asked one of the most important questions you will have every faced : are you ready to do everything you can to help free one billion people from the most desperate poverty imaginable?

This question is so important because if you do to do everything you can to help the poorest people in the world, hundreds of millions of people, mainly children, are going to die unnecessarily or continue living on the absolute margin of existence. And if you don

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