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Rich, poor nations seek deal for U.N. finance meeting
Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:14pm EDT
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By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rich and poor nations on Tuesday edged closer to a deal on proposals for reforming the global financial system, but diplomats said there must be changes if a U.N. conference this week is to adopt them.
A three-day U.N. General Assembly meeting on the financial crisis and its impact on the developing world, originally scheduled for June 1-3, was postponed to June 24-26 when it became clear negotiators had no agreement on draft proposals.
Although the meeting has been billed as a summit, no Western leaders are expected to attend and only 14 presidents and prime ministers will show up. The other 112 countries taking part will send lower-level delegations.
The heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will also be sending deputies, U.N. officials said.
Western envoys said that reflected dissatisfaction with the meeting's organizer, leftist U.N. General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto of Nicaragua.
The top speakers are to be Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales, both well-known leftists.
The run-up to the conference has highlighted differences between radicals who want to give the 192-nation General Assembly much more say in tackling the financial crisis and major powers intent on keeping control in their own hands.
With less than 24 hours to go before the conference opens at U.N. headquarters, diplomats told Reuters they were closing in on an agreement on a set of proposals they hope the conference will adopt.
D'Escoto told reporters that most of the work on the draft proposals was now done, though he said they would still have to be approved by the 126 nations attending the meeting.
"I am satisfied with the way it's going," said D'Escoto, a Roman Catholic priest who was Nicaragua's foreign minister in the 1980s while the left-wing Sandinistas were in power.
He also rejected criticism of the summit and the way it has been organized: "What is important is what will be agreed."
DISAGREEMENTS
Disputed parts of the draft reform proposals, U.N. diplomats said, include the future role of the United Nations in the global financial system and a "follow-up mechanism" to monitor fulfillment of promises made at this week's meeting.
Poor nations outside the Group of 20 club of big developed and developing economies -- a group that includes India, China and Brazil -- want the U.N. to play a leading role in the global financial system, an idea Western powers reject, the diplomats said.
The poor states complain that the G20 has virtual monopoly powers. Continued...
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