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The UN special envoy for the Doha Conference on Financing for Development has described the meeting as a success.

. She was speaking as the meeting on financing for development was in its last day in Doha, Qatar. UN Radio's Donn Bobb is there and sent this report.

Minister for Development and Economic Cooperation in Germany Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul says it shows that the world stands together in the face of the economic crisis -something she describes as being of huge importance to the people in all our countries but most specifically in developing countries:

"At this conference we agreed that we must find global answers to the major global problems and challenges of our time and to me it was of utmost importance that this conference should end with the unanimous vote on the Outcome Document. Because the unanimous vote is the signal of a Doha Consensus and I think the Doha Consensus will in future be and have the same relevance that the Monterrey Consensus on which it builds."

Ms. Wieczorek-Zeul says no one would have understood if there had been a summit on the financial markets and not a summit on how to reduce poverty and hunger.

And she adds that here in Doha not only G-20 was represented but also the 172 countries that have not so far been included in the G-20.

This is Donn Bobb reporting for United Nations Radio, Doha.

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