General Duke Posted June 16, 2005 Somalia on G77 table Wed. June 15, 2005 08:41 am. Foreign ministers of 77 (G77) countries met yesterday in Doha Qatar and drafted two initiatives to fight poverty, hunger, and to promote education among developing countries. Doha Plan for Action and the Doha Declaration will be further discussed by head of states in tomorrow’s meeting. Somalia’s current situation and future are on the agenda. A Somali delegation headed by President Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed is present in the meetings. Qatar’s Ambassador to the United Nations Nasser Abdul Aziz Al-Nasser, said that the least-developed countries would like to see developed nations help the poor acquire know-how to commercialize their potential. China which is not part of G77 is participating in the summit actively and the UN has welcomed it as a step forward for fighting hunger in developing countries. Plans for Palestine and failed states Somalia and Iraq are on the table. News Category: Somalia Send this news article Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
General Duke Posted June 16, 2005 G77 plus China summit stresses South-South cooperation www.chinaview.cn 2005-06-16 03:01:27 by Jiang Xianming CAIRO, June 15 (Xinhuanet) -- The second summit of the Group of 77 (G77) plus China kicked off in Qatari capital of Doha on Wednesday to focus on ways to promote South-South cooperation in addition to South-North ties. The two-day summit, also known as the second South Summit, is attended by 32 heads of state, in addition to prime ministers, foreign ministers and senior officials of over 130 member states. Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan, leading a delegation, attendedthe meeting. He arrived here Tuesday also on the last leg of his four-nation tour which has taken him to Russia, Oman and the UnitedArab Emirates. The agenda of the summit includes the stance of the G-77 plus China regarding political issues within a developmental framework, mainly Palestine, Iraq and Somalia, as well as means of promoting developmental cooperation among southern states and ways to deal with poverty and hunger. The participants will tackle trade among the group, investment, the environment and the role of the UN in terms of development, says the agenda. In his speech at the inaugural session of the summit, Jamaican Prime Minister Percival Patterson, whose country holds the rotatingpresidency of the G77, called for boosting development cooperation among member states. He pointed out that there were two major reasons for the limitedsuccess of the G77, namely the failure to provide financial resources to deliver the development objectives and lack of provision of institutional mechanisms at the economic and technicallevels. However, "we have not adequately exploited the potential for cooperation" within the G77, said Patterson, adding the countries of the south should increase economic and technical cooperation. For his part, host Qatari Amir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thanialso called for more efforts to promote south-south cooperation, especially in trade. Cooperation among developing countries has qualified G77 with their economic weight to be an active partner in the world economicarena, he said. He added that developing countries are entitled to flexibility that qualifies them to design development strategies that suit them, so that they can adapt to globalization and benefit from it. The emir also proposed to set up a fund for economic, social, health, poverty and human catastrophes, saying the fund may be called "The South Fund for Development and Human Circumstances" andQatar will donate 20 million US dollars to the fund. On Monday, foreign ministers of the G77 plus China endorsed a final statement and a program of action to lay groundwork for the G77 plus China summit. The statement, expected to be approved by the leaders at the endof the summit on Thursday, also highlights south-south cooperation and the combat against poverty and hunger. Qatar's Permanent UN Ambassador Naser Abdel-Aziz Al-Nasir revealed that the final statement gives top priority to development-related issues, including south-south cooperation, the combat against poverty and hunger as well as the promotion of education. "We uphold the principles of sovereignty and sovereign equality of states, territorial integrity and non-intervention in the internal affairs of any state and encourage the settlement of international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner as international peace, security and justice are not endangered," saysthe statement. The G77, established in 1964, groups 134 countries and is currently chaired by Jamaica. According to earlier announcements, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, also current chairman of the Group of eight most industrialized nations (G8), the Luxembourg Prime Minister who is the current president of the European Union (EU) and representatives from 20 regional and international organizations also attend the Doha summit. On Saturday, G8 finance ministers agreed in London to cancel at least 40 billion dollars in debt owed by the world's 18 poorest countries, including 15 African countries. Jamaica's Patterson stressed that countries of the G-77 need inter-cooperation as much as they need cooperation with the countries of the North. South-North partnership negotiations are going in a slow pace, he said, adding that South countries were still unable to obtain modern technology and necessary expertise to upgrade their economies and harness their natural resources. Globalization and interdependence required a broadened level of consultation and decision-making to formulate international economic policies, he stressed. Enditem Related Story Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
General Duke Posted June 16, 2005 Combating poverty top of the G77 agenda June 13, 2005 01:00:00 .DUBAI FES120 Dubai Jun 13 (PTI) Foreign ministers of G-77 and China have agreed upon the Doha political declaration and the Doha plan of action ahead of referring the documents to heads of states and governments for final endorsement. The Doha plan of action gives top priority to development-related matters, including south-south cooperation, combat of poverty and hunger and dissemination of education, Qatar's permanent representative to the UN and deputy chairman of the organizing committee of the second south summit of G77 and China, Nasser Abdul Aziz Al-Nasser said after the foreign ministerial meeting of the G77 in Doha. On the political level, the Doha political declaration touches on key questions, such as Somalia, Iraq and Palestine as well as some issues of concern to member states seeking the group's support, he said. Asked whether the unilateral attempts by certain individual countries to seal separate deals and alliances with major superpowers, especially the United States do affect their approach to collective cooperation within the group, he said a majority of least developed countries have welcomed the financial assistance from the rich countries, but they would like these countries to help them attain development. Earlier, Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem Al Thani called on the developing countries to spare no effort to push forward their development agenda ahead of the UN general assembly next September that will examine the millennium development goals. He said the developing countries were not in need of any further commitment of assistance by the rich nations, but were expecting "an effective implementation of previous promises" of aid. PTI Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
General Duke Posted June 16, 2005 Emir to open Second South Summit today Web posted at: 6/15/2005 3:8:22 DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani will open the two-day Second South Summit of G77 plus China today. Doha was in a virtual lockdown yesterday as dozens of heads of state arrived for the summit. These include UAE President H H Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Bahrain King H M Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa, Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al Sabah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, Algerian President Abdul Aziz Bouteflika, President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, Prime Minister of Bangladesh Khaleda Zia, Sudan President Omar Al Bashir, Somalia’s President Abdullah Yousuf Ahmed, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, President Of Djibouti Ismail Omar Guelleh, President Of Union Of Comoros Azali Assoumani, President Of Republic Of Mozambique Armando Guebuza, El Salvador Vice President Ana Vilma Al Banees Cobar, President Of Togolese Republic Faure Eyadema, and President of Republic of Botswana Fetus Mogae. Helicopters and patrol boats covered the sea approaches, as motorcades took leaders to their hotels. Among those presidents expected were British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and Syria’s Bashar Al Assad. The Group of 77 developing nations and China are to call on wealthy countries to honour pledges of additional aid to close the gap between rich and poor at the summit. Qatar initiative Qatar will call for creating a fund for the poor countries of the South and will provide QR20m as initial deposit for the fund. A draft resolution approved by foreign ministers at a preparatory meeting yesterday calls on rich countries to meet their obligations by raising official development assistance (ODA) to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Product. The target was set by the United Nations several years ago but most industrialised countries are still a long way from meeting it. The 132-member bloc is also demanding that between 0.15 per cent and 0.20 per cent of ODA be directed to least developed countries. The draft declaration also calls for more debt relief for developing countries, including the cancellation of all government debt owed by least developed countries. Ministers welcomed a decision by the industrialised nations to write off some debt but said it should come with no strings attached. Finance ministers of the Group of Eight agreed on Saturday to wipe out $40bn of debt owed by 18 poor nations in Africa and Latin America. Algerian presidential envoy Abdelaziz Belkhadem called on wealthy nations to reduce the debt burden on poor African nations by transforming part of it into social investments, chiefly in education and health. The draft declaration demands that any reform of the United Nations promote multilateralism and the world body’s central role, rather than the power of particular states. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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