United Nations Radio

At last weekend's summit in Washington, D.C., the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed world leaders to attend the up-coming conference on financing for development, to be held in Doha beginning November 28.

A statement from the UN Spokesman's office says this meeting has since grown to be a full-fledged summit, with some 40 heads of state or government from the developed and developing world arriving to discuss the next steps for follow-up to the Monterrey Consensus, and managing the global financial crisis.

The statement says the Secretary-General's goal at Doha is to broaden the debate beyond the need for a global stimulus package--the main theme in Washington--to include protections for the needs of developing nations, by maintaining international commitments on aid and trade and minimizing negative impact on global security and well being of people. It also aims to promote "green jobs" and "green economy" as an integral element in any stimulus package; and to ensure that inclusive multilateralism be the watch-word for institutional financial reform.

As the Secretary-General sees it, the world does not face a single crisis.

Rather he says, it faces a nexus of interrelated crises which can only be dealt with comprehensively adding that solutions to each challenge must therefore be solutions to all.

This is Donn Bobb reporting for United Nations Radio.

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