Cuba Insists on Bleak
Economy Prospects
United Nations - The
bleak prospect for world
economy and threats to
the poorest countries'
efforts to achieve
sustainable development
were denounced on Monday
by Cuban Ambassador
Ileana Nuñez.
The diplomat said the
final document of the
Doha Conference on
Financing "does not
assess well the
seriousness of the
situation the world
currently undergoes, and
its entailments for the
poorest countries."
Speaking in a General
Assembly session,
devoted to monitor the
results of the
Milennium's Summit,
Nuñez admitted that the
Doha Statement includes
important approaches
about the current
economic financial
context.
However, she said it
does not give a broad
and exact diagnosis of
the seriousness of the
situation, and is
limited to reiteration
of old promises that are
still awaiting the
political will of those
more powerful for
fulfilment.
She also said that
foreign indebtedness
adds to that
discouraging panorama,
worsening the structural
crisis of the Third
World economies, and
stagnation of the trade
negotiations, which she
said should have been
focused on development.
The Cuban official
emphasized the evidence
of the negative impact
of climate change and
environmental
degradation, the victims
of which are still poor
countries and those most
vulnerable.
She recalled that in the
particular case of small
insular States, the
devastating path of
hurricanes and other
phenomena related to
climate have caused huge
losses in recent months,
delaying their
development.
Cuba's representative to
the UN said it was
urgent to establish an
international order
based on solidarity,
social justice, equality
and respect to the
rights of the people and
each human being.
We do not need more
rhetoric or hollow
promises. The thing is
to know if those
responsible for the
chaotic and unequal
world in which we live
in are willing to give
up, even part of their
privileges and
wastefulness.
Those changes will only
happen by means of a
comprehensive
transformation of the
current economic, trade
and financial system
that have a bearing in
fairer regulations that
really favor sustainable
development of our
countries.
The Cuban ambassador
said she hoped that the
United Nations would be
able to play its
relevant historic role
in the current
international situation
and become the most
legitimate defender of
the rights of the
dispossessed in the
world.
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