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From: "Andy Mensah" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:52 PM
Subject: [unioNews] Annan Says 'Laws of Jungle' Threaten World Order
Fri January 23, 2004 04:50 AM ET
<H3>Annan Says 'Laws of Jungle' Threaten World Order</H3>
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi
Annan said on Friday the world faced a combination of security
threats and economic dangers that put the entire international order
in jeopardy.
<B>Annan said terrorism and the global war against it threatened to
undermine human rights and split the world along cultural, religious
and ethnic lines.</B>
"Business...has a powerful interest in helping to prevent the
international security system from sliding back into brute
competition based on the laws of the jungle," he told corporate
leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
"In just a few short years, the prevailing atmosphere has shifted
from belief in the near-inevitability of globalization to deep
uncertainty about the very survival of our tenuous global order,"
Annan said.
Collective security and the role of the world body itself were under
serious strain, the U.N. chief added.
Annan appealed directly to heads of the world's leading companies to
use their influence with governments to bring about fairer trade and
enhance security.
He said business must play a vital part in averting conflicts which
were often related to struggles to control natural resources.
"Business efforts to promote transparency and fight corruption can be
effective measures in preventing conflict from happening in the first
place," he said.
On the economic front, unfair trade -- especially farming subsidies --
was not only destroying the environment but choking off revenues
from the countries that most needed them.
Corporations had the power and influence to help break the current
impasse in world trade negotiations, Annan said.
"More than anything else, we need a poor-friendly deal on
agriculture. No single issue more gravely imperils the multilateral
trading system, from which you benefit so much," he said.
"Agricultural subsidies skew market forces. They destroy the
environment. And they block poor-country exports from world markets,
keeping them from earning revenues that would dwarf any conceivable
level of aid and investment flows to those countries."
He added: "For all our sakes, and for the credibility of the system
itself, they must be eliminated."
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