G8 development ministers "agreed to a set of guiding principles [for Canada's G8 maternal and child health initiative] that leaves flexibility for countries to 'build their basket of initiatives,'" Bev Oda, the Canadian minister for international cooperation, said at a closing news conference on Wednesday, the Toronto Star reports. "Other countries will choose different actions in order to address and to support our efforts for better, healthy mothers and better, healthy children and they are free to do that," Oda said...
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