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AN URGENT CALL TO G-20 COUNTRIES: Treat the UN G-192 ECONOMIC CRISIS Summit Seriously
The UN Conference On the world financial and Economic crisis 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-Brockmann 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,
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Initiated and signed by
Ramsey Clark, winner, 2008 U.N.Human Rights Award
