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A8 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 12 May 2018

$10 billion campaign Guatemala asks Swedish,

launched to educate Venezuelan ambassadors to leave

every child by 2030 By SONIA PEREZ D.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) —
Sweden looked to Guate-
By EDITH M. LEDERER He said this emphasizes mala for an explanation
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A that "the biggest divide in on Friday after the Central
campaign to raise $10 bil- the world today is between American country asked
lion to ensure that every the half of our future who both the European nation
child gets a secondary are going to be educated and Venezuela to remove
school education by 2030 and the other half who are their ambassadors and ac-
received support Friday being left behind — and cused them of interfering in
from the U.N. chief, global the left behind include 75 its internal affairs.
and regional banks, and million children, including Sweden's foreign minister
11.5 million young people 10 million refugees in con- says it is "very unfortunate"
who are calling for the flict zones and other emer- that the country's ambas-
biggest education invest- gencies." According to the sador to Guatemala has
ment in history. Youth ac- International Commission been ordered to leave.
tivists delivered a petition on Financing Global Edu- Margot Walstrom says the
to Secretary-General Anto- cation Opportunity, inter- Swedish government will
nio Guterres with 1.5 million national funding for edu- ask for "further explana-
signatures from Pakistan cation declined from 13 tions" as to why ambas-
and Bangladesh, adding percent of all aid 10 years sador Anders Kompass
to the 10 million signatures ago to 10 percent today. has been given 30 days to
already collected from And all aid to education leave, adding the Scan-
around the world. It calls on in developing countries dinavian country's stance
world leaders to launch a amounts to $10 per child, and actions "in matters re-
new International Finance "not enough to pay for a lating to human rights and
Facility for Education that second-hand textbook, let anti-corruption are well
can provide an additional alone a quality education," known."
$10 billion to help send mil- said the commission, which A Guatemalan govern-
lions of marginalized boys was established in 2015 ment press release Thurs- In this Feb. 13, 2006 file photo, Anders Kompass, the U.N. High
Commission for Human Rights representative in Guatemala and
and girls to school. to increase investment day said Guatemala also currently ambassador of Sweden, speaks with reporters during
U.N. Special Envoy for Edu- in education. On Friday, wants Venezuelan diplo- a press conference in Guatemala City.
cation Gordon Brown said the World Bank, the Inter- mat Elena Alicia Salcedo Associated Press
over 260 million children American Development to depart.
are not attending school Bank, African Develop- Kompass is a well-known unsuccessfully to expel the sovereign decision by her
today, and if current trends ment Bank, Asian Develop- official and human rights commission's head, Ivan government. She said there
continue 400 million won't ment Bank and the Europe- defender. A few days earli- Velasquez, from the coun- were no plans to expel oth-
be educated beyond age an Bank for Reconstruction er he had announced Swe- try. er diplomats.
11 by 2030, the target to and Development issued a den's financial support for a But Guatemala did not say Former Guatemalan for-
meet the U.N. goal of en- joint statement committing United Nations-sponsored why it was expelling Kom- eign minister Fernando Car-
suring a primary and sec- to move forward on the commission investigating pass and Salcedo beyond rera said the government
ondary education for all $10 billion financing facility corruption in Guatemala. alleging "interference in its was trying to withdraw the
children. and their representatives The commission, which internal affairs." financial and political sup-
"In total 800 million children joined Brown and the sec- goes by the initials CICIG, Sweden's TT news agency port for the CICIG because
— that is half the world's retary-general. "Now, the had accused Guatemala says Guatemala's ambas- of its investigations into cor-
children — will leave school international finance facil- President Jimmy Morales sador to Sweden has been ruption.
without qualifications and ity comes to fill the gap ... of corruption related to al- summoned, but did not say "It's a desperate attempt,
fail to enjoy a quality edu- and my strong appeal is for leged illegal campaign fi- when. because the government
cation" and in some cases the international communi- nancing while he was sec- At a press conference, for- has increasingly less inter-
they will be illiterate, Brown ty to fully bet in this new in- retary general of his party. eign minister Sandra Jovel nal support and must get
told a news conference. strument," Guterres said.q Morales subsequently tried described the move as a rid of them," Carrera said.q