Geldof in poverty call

From The Gulf Daily News

Leaders of the Group of Eight wealthy nations are not welcome in Scotland unless they do more to end world poverty, rock star and activist Bob Geldof said yesterday.

The leaders of the G8 countries plan to hold a summit at Gleneagles, north of Edinburgh, in July. "If they come here with the attitude that I know they currently have, of doing nothing, and letting them get away with it - don't come, stay at home, not welcome," Geldof said.

Geldof, who started the Live Aid appeal 20 years ago in response to famine in Ethiopia, was addressing a conference in the Scottish parliament. He called on G8 leaders to follow through on their pledges concerning debt, trade and aid.