The Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee (MERPAC) will conduct an intercessional meeting to facilitate working group discussion of Task Statement 76, entitled ``Review of Performance Measures (Assessment Criteria),'' and Task Statement 77, entitled ``Development of Performance Measures (Assessment Criteria).'' This meeting will be open to the public.
UNITED NATIONS -- Representatives from developing nations railed at the world's rich nations for failing to fulfill their commitments to increase financial aid, reiterating that developed nations are responsible for challenges like global warming that the poorer nations are now grappling with. Members of the Group of 77 called Tuesday for better cooperation among the world's developing nations and joint action on global challenges such as climate change, food security and poverty to promote their own interests.
It was not long before the dark shadow of the WTO and the IMF began to loom over UNCTAD. When the tenth UNCTAD meeting convened in Bangkok in February 2000, Michel Camdessus, Managing Director of the IMF, appeared as an honored guest. His scheduled speech bode ill for the Group of 77 and their progressive trade agenda. Although Mr. Camdessus said "poverty was the greatest concern of our time," and added that the "widening gaps between the most affluent and most impoverished nations were morally outrageous," many could not help but notice that the IMF had engineered the gaps and that its continuing austerity programs would make them wider still. Around the world, economists agreed that the fiscal policies imposed by the IMF on Brazil, Russia, South Korea, and Indonesia during the late 19...
We decided that we would not respond to one of the 191 parliaments," [Dumisani Kumalo] told reporters after the meeting, adding, "If we respond to the US today, tomorrow we might have to respond to the South African parliament, and on, and on, and on. On February 9, Ambassador Kumalo called a press conference to explain that all member states of the UN were interested in rooting out corruption. The South African ambassador, speaking as the chairman of the Group of 77, noted that media reports indicated that "it's the United States only that cares about this." There are 191 member states, he stressed. "If I may talk as South Africa for a minute, we contribute to this organization," ambassador Kumalo said, adding, "My government is also interested that there should be no corruption in t...
In mid-December political leaders, environmental scientists, NGOs and lobbyists converged on Copenhagen to try to hammer out a global agreement on climate change. While some expected the conference to be dominated by the concerns of richer Western nations, the influence of the Group of 77 was readily apparent. The final impact of Copenhagen is unlikely to be clear for some time. However, it will be remembered as a landmark summit, given the number of political leaders who attended and the fact that the debate was not so much dominated by whether climate change was real or not, but what is the best way to move forward and who should shoulder the cost.
[Michael Manley]'s internationalist outlook propelled Jamaica on to the world stage as a major player in the liberation struggles in Southern Africa after assuming office in 1972. In 1973 at the non-aligned movement summit in Algeria Jamaica's focus was on the need for a New Economic Order as well as the liberation of Southern Africa. State visits were paid to Kaunda's Zambia and [Julius Nyerere]'s Tanzania. Jamaica increased its role in the deliberations of the Group of 77 while concretising relations with the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) as well as being more active in UN activities. By 1978 Manley was awarded the UN Gold Medal for his "significant contribution in the international campaign against apartheid". At the 1979 Non-Aligned Conference held in Havana Manley said "we wh...
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