U.N. Wants To Continue the Fighting Against Poverty

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked the members of the nations not to give up on the Millenium Development Goals set up a decade ago, that is fight poverty, hunger and diseases.

These goals refer to ending extreme poverty by 2015. “We must stay true to our commitment to end deshumanizing conditions of extreme poverty,” he said.

Ban Ki-moon said that the summit is important for meeting the eight anti-poverty goals. Some of these goals are uneven applied in the countries, and additional efforts must be made in order to ensure their implementation in many parts of the world.

This summit comes at a time when many of the 150 nations present are resilient to donating money for the U.N. funds, since many have economic problems back home, and are focusing on the domestic economy.

Even so, Ban stated in his report that the economic problems are not a serious cause to stop this optimistic project.

Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, proposed a tax on transactions through the world banking system and to put the money into this project.

Evo Morales, President of Bolivia blamed the problems of the world on the transfer of the wealth of the south to the northern countries. “We should discuss a way to put an end to this pillage of resources,” he told the chiefs of states gathered in New York.

Morales called for the nationalization of the natural resources “so that the dividends remain in our countries and benefit our peoples.” The investors should not become the owners of the natural resources, Morales explained in a plan that has its ups and downs, but apart from being based on a Socialist philosophy of the state, considered the one that must do everything for the citizens, which is to some point wrong because it fosters corruption, it is even better than the plan of Ban Ki-moon, based mainly in aiding the ones in need.

Morales has also called for the establishment of a bank for the countries in the southern hemisphere, that will break them away from the influence of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Morales cited the development of the country after the IMF left the land, with a drop in extreme poverty from 41 to 32, and of infant immortality of 42 percent. He called for a more correct distribution of the wealth in the world, given that 40 percent of the population has only 5 percent of global income, while 70 percent goes to 5 percent of the population.

Shimon Perez, President of Israel said that a world without poverty is a peaceful one, while King of Jordan said that one education goal of the program is already in progress in his country.