Posted on 09/23/2008 8:12:43 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday stressed the need for "global leadership" as he pressed world leaders not to pursue narrow national interests in the face of hard economic times.
"I see a danger of nations looking more inward, rather than toward a shared future," he said at the opening of the UN General Assembly's annual debate.
He spoke of a "challenge of global leadership" to tackle the world's worsening financial, energy and food crises.
"We see new centers of power and leadership -- in Asia, Latin America and across the newly developed world," Ban told more than 120 heads of state or government, including Presidents George W. Bush of the United States and Nicolas Sarkozy of France.
"In this new world, our challenges are increasingly those of collaboration rather than confrontation," he added.
"Nations can no longer protect their interests, or advance the well-being of their people, without the partnership of the rest."
On the world's current financial crisis, the UN secretary general stressed the need to "restore order to the international financial markets".
"We need a new understanding on business ethics and governance, with more compassion and less uncritical faith in the 'magic' of markets," the UN boss said.
Ban, who has chosen implementation of key poverty reduction goals as a major theme of this year's debate, said he saw "a danger of retreating from the progress we have made, particularly in the realm of development and more equitably sharing the fruits of global growth."
"Global growth has raised billions of people out of poverty. However, if you are among the world's poor, you have never felt poverty so sharply."
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Hide your women and children and money.
Is the oil for food scandal fully resolved?
Than no global leadership for you.
Translations: Surrender your sovereignty and take your place in the global empire.
If an American calls himself a Globalist he is a traitor and worthy of death.
Neah.
Translation: Fill my Swiss Bank Account, and those of the Kleptocrats whom the UN represents.
Go wear your begging-bowl as a hat...Moon Pie!
Bush is now a Globalist and has been ever since I heard his name.
The UN is telling us not to consider our National interests, but to look after world interests. This is what the US has been doing, and it is killing us and turning us into a third world nation that can not even help itself. We lack jobs since we have given too many jobs away to third world nations. Who is willing to help us when we are without?
Also, I don’t recall anyone on FR criticizing about the cost of Bush’s enduring legacy in Africa - the $30 Billion HIV/AIDS Plan. Obama is trying to match it but somehow I don’t think there’ll be any money left for him to do it.
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