U2’s Bono meets Kevin Rudd to talk about poverty, aid
By ANISunday, November 28, 2010
MELBOURNE - U2 frontman Bono met with Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd at the Sydney Opera House to talk about poverty and aid.
Rudd’s spokeman said the two met and spoke for about 45 minutes, along with Make History Poverty co-chairs Andrew Hewett and Tim Costello.
The rock star for all praises for the government’s development agenda, bipartisan support to reduce poverty globally and spoke about the challenge of global development and Australia’s contribution, the spokesman said.
Bono’s agenda was to get an expansion of the Australian government’s aid program and meeting Millennium Development goals set by the UN to reduce global poverty, reports News.com.au.
Rudd praised Bono for his activism and the pair also spoke about developments in HIV globally, the spokesman said. (ANI)
