Tag udviklingslande med på råd om finanskrisen

Der er FN-møde den 30. oktober 2008 om finanskrisen. "Det simple frie markeds ideologier har skubbet verden ud på kanten af et kollaps. Hvorfor skal vi nu stole på, at de samme ideologier kan redde os ud af suppedasen", spørger Adriano Campolina, regionaldirektør for ActionAid i Latinamerika.

Denne pressemeddelelse udsendes i samarbejde mellem Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke og ActionAid International – derfor er teksten på engelsk. Kommentarer kan indhentes af forkvinde for Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke Trine Pertou Mach på mobil 2335 0965.

Thursday October 30rd 2008. Today the UN meets to discuss its taskforce on the global financial crisis, ActionAid along with more than 600 civil society organizations across the world have issued a statement demanding that developing nations be included in crisis talks.

"Simple minded free market ideologies have pushed the world to the brink of collapse - why should we now trust countries pushing these very same ideologies to fix the mess?" warns Adirano Campolina, ActionAid's regional director in Latin America, ahead of the UN meeting on the global financial crisis and the G20 meeting hosted by the US in mid-November.

"It’s time to listen to the South for once. After all thanks to the disastrous liberalisation of our financial systems, pushed by Washington in the 1990s, developing countries know a thing or two about banking crises and how to manage them."

ActionAid has joined a coalition of over 600 organisations across the globe calling on the UN to give developing nations a say in financial crisis talks.

The coalition statement demands that any future global summit must meet the following principles:
•  involve all governments of the world;
•  meaningfully engage civil society, citizen’s groups and social movements in the process;
•  set a clear timeline for regional consultations with groups most affected by the crisis;
•  be comprehensive in scope, tackling the full array of issues and institutions; and,
•  be transparent, with proposals and draft outcome documents made publicly available and discussed well in advance of the meeting.

It also lays out a role for the UN, as a globally representative body, to convene such an event.

“Of course it is imperative to agree quickly on measures to address the immediate crisis and protect ordinary workers, low-income households, and other extremely vulnerable sectors from the impacts”, said Lidy Nacpil of Jubilee South - Asia/Pacific Movement on Debt and Development.

“But since the impacts are likely to be the greatest on the poorest people, and in emerging economies and developing countries”, Ms. Nacpil continued, “shouldn’t all countries - governments and peoples - have a say, not just those responsible for this crisis?”

The full global sign-on statement is available on-line at http://www.choike.org/bw2

ActionAid er en international udviklingsorganisation, som Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke for nylig knyttede sig til. Tilsammen arbejder de to organisationer i mere end 40 lande verden over, for at skaffe indflydelse til verdens fattigste.
Se omtale af FN-mødet her: http://www.un.org/ga/president/63/interactive/gfc.shtml