Posted on 01/28/2009 8:12:04 AM PST by BGHater
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says 'radical' policy changes may be needed to create jobs.
The worldwide economic recession has exposed a "crisis of global governance" that can only be addressed by the radical reform of the United Nations, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday as the World Economic Forum got under way in Switzerland.
"The current architecture of managing global affairs is broken and needs to be fixed," Annan said on the opening morning of the five-day annual meeting of global political and business leaders. "We have major new players coming on the scene and they need to be integrated and given a voice."
Referring to the U.N. Security Council, which gives permanent places and vetoing powers to the United States, the U.K., Russia, China and France, Annan said: "We cannot continue to run the world based on countries that won a war 60 years ago. It's either destructive competition or cooperation. We live in an interdependent world and the only way to move forward is to cooperate."
Annan is one of six co-chairs at this year's WEF gathering, along with news tycoon Rupert Murdoch, HSBC Chairman Stephen Green, Werner Wenning of the German chemical group Bayer, Indian industrialist Anand G. Mahindra and Maria Ramos, chief executive of the South African transport group Transnet.
He also urged delegates to address three interconnected challenges: the global recession, energy and security, and climate change.
"It is important leaders work on ways of finding effective, far-reaching policies - even if they are radical - that will allow us to create sustainable economic growth and create jobs for those who are out of jobs," Annan said.
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Heck, Africa and most of the world has been on vacation for the past 50 years. Only America and a few countries actually work yet are taxed to give their hard earn money to non-working societies.
Africa has been in a state of Arrested Development since the dawn of time.
Do you see the not-so-subtle implication of his call for the abolition of the Security Council? It is the Security Council which (because of the US veto, alone) has time and again thwarted the radical, anti-US, anti-Israel, pro-terror, pro-socialist, pro-wealth redistribution global schemes issued, decreed, resolved and pontificated, lo these many years.
So, although the Security Council would be nice to save, sez Mr. Coffee, the greater good would be to abolish it so as to neuter the one influence for good the USA has remaining in that God-forsaking rats’ nest.
Isn’t Annan retired? I thought the Secretary General is Ban Kai Moon.
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