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 1 December 2009
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South-South cooperation to help meet global challenges

01/12/2009

The UN Deputy Secretary-General on Tuesday called for stronger and more innovative cooperation between developing countries to tackle global challenges such as poverty, hunger and climate change.

Asha-Rose Migiro told the UN High-Level Conference on South-South Cooperation, taking place in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi that development has proved most successful when coupled with strategies to increase cross-border trade and investment:

"South and North alike face multiple crises. Hunger afflicts one billion people -- an unprecedented number. Unemployment is up and trade is down as a result of the economic crisis. Catastrophic climate change looms. Solutions to these and other ills require stronger cooperation, starting with one's immediate neighbors."

Ms. Migiro added that South-South cooperation should not replace North-South cooperation, but rather complement it.

The three-day meeting in Nairobi will review 30 years of progress since the UN Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1978.

Bissera Kostova, United Nations
duration: 1'16"

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Asha-Rose Migiro, UN Deputy Secretary-General

"South and North alike face multiple crises. Hunger afflicts one billion people -- an unprecedented number. Unemployment is up and trade is down as a result of the economic crisis. Catastrophic climate change looms. Solutions to these and other ills require stronger cooperation, starting with one's immediate neighbors."
Duration: 26"

Helen Clark, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

"This is a time of major challenges to development. The twenty-first century has been characterized to date by multiple crises, including the current global recession, food and fuel price volatility, climate related disasters, and now by an influenza pandemic. The nations of the south need ready access to the most relevant knowledge and best practices for devising their own responses to these challenges."
Duration: 31"

Raila Amollo Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya

"Countries of the south are beginning to exchange and transfer technology among themselves. We have said that this cannot be to the exclusion of cooperation with the countries of the north, because this globe is one and therefore triangular cooperation is what we are now calling for."
Duration: 24"