Wednesday 3 December 2008

Uproar over UN policies

DOHA: There is an urgent need to take a fresh look at the policies and structure of the United Nations Organistion and its axillaries, high ranking officials, representatives and experts have opined. There was uproar against the current policies during a session Looking ahead: further cooperative actions in financing for development at the UN conference here yesterday at the Doha Sheraton. Delegates representing India stressed on revising the international governance structure. “Most of these policies were created at the end of World War II. There has been a sea of changes in global realities and contemporary world since then,” representatives from India said.

“The need for the day is not just enhancing coherence and consistency but alternative to the international monetary finance and trading system, and indeed to the international

governance,” he said. “We should realise that the world has become smaller. There is increasing need not just to tell but to give effect of the principle of national ownership to have legitimacy in decision-making. THE PENINSULA

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