AN URGENT CALL TO G-20 COUNTRIES:
Treat the UN G-192 ECONOMIC CRISIS Summit Seriously
The June 1-3 UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis needs the
highest level of participation from all countries
Initiated by 2008 U.N. Human Rights Award winner
Ramsey Clark
Based on the global capitalist economic crisis which is wreaking havoc on the
lives of hundreds of millions of people world wide, United Nations General
Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto-Brockman is organizing an urgent
Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on
Development, to take place on June 1-3 at the United Nations in New York City.
This international gathering, sometimes called the G-192 because every member
nation of the UN will participate, is virtually tenfold the participation of
nations in the G-20. This summit of world leaders will for the first time give
an equal opportunity to those who represent the world’s poorest and most
vulnerable people, those who are suffering the most but who have been left out
in the decisions which have caused this systemic failure, to express their
people’s needs to the world and make known their suffering caused by
arbitrary acts and excesses of rich nations. The powerful financial
institutions that have long been entrusted to manage national and global
financial and economic systems have failed. It is time to give all the others a
voice and a choice. It is critical that the United States and the other
G-20 nations treat this conference seriously and send their heads of state to
participate fully to hear what the most impacted nations have to
say.
Let President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President
Joe Biden, Congressional leaders, Governments of G20 countries, U.N. General
Assembly President D'Escoto-Brockman, U.N. Secretary General Ban, members
of the U.N. Security Council, U.N. member states, and Major media
representatives know you support this urgent call initiated by 2008 U.N. Human
Rights Award recipient Ramsey Clark for all countries, and particularly the G20
countries, to fully support the U.N. June 1-3 Conference on the World Financial
and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development including by participating in
the conference at the Head of State level.
Sign the Petition Online Now - http://www.iacenter.org/uneconconf
The eyes of the world as well as the eyes of many here in the U.S. will be
focused on the important UN conference.
Indeed, activists and social movements from the U.S. and around the world
will hold a “Peoples Economic Summit” in conjunction with the UN
Conference on Sunday May 31, under tents in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47 St. and
1st Ave. (directly across the street from the UN). For more
information on this event see www.bailoutpeople.org
Petition Text:
AN URGENT CALL TO G-20 COUNTRIES: Treat the UN G-192 ECONOMIC
CRISIS Summit Seriously
The June 1-3, 2009 UN Conference on the World Financial and
Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development Needs the Highest Level of
Participation from all Countries
To: President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice
President Joe Biden, Congressional leaders, Governments of G20 countries, U.N.
General Assembly President d'Escoto-Brockmann, U.N. Secretary General Ban,
members of the U.N. Security Council, U.N. member states, and Major media
representatives:
General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockman will convene a
critical, high level United Nations Conference on the World Financial and
Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development, to be held at UN headquarters,
on 1-3 June 2009. This international gathering, sometimes called the G-192
because every member nation of the UN will participate, is virtually tenfold
the participation of nations in the G-20. The Conference's goal is to
identify emergency and long-term responses to arrest and reverse the worst
world global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s and assure
that such a self-inflicted human tragedy never happens again.
This summit of world leaders will for the first time give an equal
opportunity to those who represent the world's poorest and most vulnerable
people, those who are suffering the most but who have been left out in the
decisions which have caused this systemic failure, to express their
people's needs to the world and make known their suffering caused by
arbitrary acts and excesses of rich nations. The powerful financial
institutions that have long been entrusted to manage national and global
financial and economic systems have failed. It is time to give all the others a
voice and a choice.
This Conference must be the starting point in a process that will allow a
reevaluation and reform, or replacement of the institutions and policies that
have failed to meet the urgent and growing needs of the world's developing
countries for investment in human capital. The present institutions and
policies have totally failed to meet the most fundamental challenges of the
21st century that must protect all nations and people from devastating economic
collapses that are more deadly and costly than ever, including the challenge to
protect our Mother Earth from the rapacious destruction that threatens us
all.
If the United Nations is to meet its responsibility to assure stability and
sustainability to the international economic and financial order, then all the
nations of the world must participate. This is the G-192.
For this Conference to be successful, I join in calling upon all countries,
and especially the richest and most powerful countries that are members of
G-20, to lend their full support to it and wherever possible to send their
heads of government to attend. There is no issue that will have greater impact
on the future of humanity, even war which is most often the child of economic
conflict. I urge the widest dissemination of this international
conference's proposals, documents, initiatives. and an unrelenting
commitment to the creation of economic and financial policies and institutions
that will achieve freedom from want for all.
Sincerely,
Initiated and signed by
Ramsey Clark, winner, 2008 U.N.Human Rights Award and
Founder, International Action Center
