General Assembly of UN agrees on the final resolution of the poverty issue

Rome, 11-10/03/2013 – The second day of session of the General Assembly took place in the beautiful scenario of Luiss Guido Carli University. The delegates continued working on the topics of poverty and hunger, presenting their positions in their speeches; unlike the day before, countries like Azerbaijan, Japan, Sweden , Slovenia and Gabon finally had the chance to speak.

Later in the morning, the General Assembly had the honor to have as guest the Italian Minister of Environment, Land and Sea Corrado Clini. The Minister presented to the Assembly the project of Millennium Development Goals focusing on sustainable development. He spoke of green global economy, that consists of the efficient and respectful use of natural and energy sources. He wishes for a “new Global Partnership” between developed and emerging economies in order to put into action a sustainable development. He agrees with the fact that countries should work together towards the improvement of technologies in the developing world: an example of this is Brazil, where European, American and local industries cooperate as partners. 

 

New world economies are emerging, countries, like China, demanding to be protagonists in world trade , but all this has to be regulated. The challenge of the next years is thus to set new rules in the World Trade Organization. 

 

Meanwhile, always with the aim of keeping an eye on current international politics, France 24 tried to investigate on the North Korean situation concerning their nuclear program. However, the delegation has chosen not to comment on the issue. 

 

On the 9^th March, Kenya saw the victory of Uhuru Kenyatta. The new president is accused by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, including murder and persecution. The delegation hopes this will not influence the position of the country within the UN, and declared to be satisfied with the days of the elections, during which no major violent protests happened. 

 

The third day of session of the General Assembly started with Italy calling for a minute of silence to commemorate the victims of a kidnapping in Nigeria. After one month of detention, Franco Lamolinara, an Italian citizen, was killed along with Chris McManus, an English citizen. 

 

After that, the morning session of the works was focused on the motions made to get to the final resolution of the Topic A: the poverty issue. The resolution saw the light at 4 pm when, after several hours of attempts to modify the draft, a large majority voted for it to become an official document.

At the end, the Chairman of the General Assembly, Cesar Briceno, congratulated the delegates for having been so cooperative. He expected it to happen despite the fact that it is not easy to get all the delegations to agree, as the GA is a very large committee compared to the others. He finally added that he wished the works on Topic B (Hunger) would be as satisfactory as those of Topic A, in spite the lack of time.

Margherita Mascagni, Ilaria Quattrone and Damiano Miraglia Raineri (France 24)