VATICAN “May the international community be ever bolder, more generous, more creative, more energetic in its struggle to finally end the division of the world into areas of poverty and plenty”. Prof. Mary Ann Glendon, president of the Pontifical Academy for Social Science addresses UN Economic and Social Council

Friday, 2 July 2004

Vatican City(Agenzia Fides) - On June 29 in New York, Prof. Mary Ann Glendon, President della Pontifical Academy of Social Science and Head of the Delegation of the Holy See to the ECOSOC 2004 High Level Segment on Least Developed Countries spoke on: “ Resource Mobilization and Enabling Environment for Poverty Eradication in the context of the implementation of the Program of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010”.
In least developed countries there are 700 million of the world’s poor, families devastated by AIDS and destroyed by migration. Prof. Glendon said: “ the Holy See joins its voice to those that are urgently calling the family of nations to attend to the needs of its most vulnerable members…For as Pope John Paul II has insisted, ‘The poor cannot wait.’ No one can deny that the challenge to reverse what often appears to be a self-perpetuating cycle of poverty, especially of LDCs is formidable. ”. These challenges must not be used as excuses, we must feel called to make ever greater efforts. “The Holy See wishes to emphasise, however, that any measure to promote authentic and lasting development must be protective of human dignity and culture… What is needed, Madam President, is a change of heart, that the international community may be ever bolder, more generous, more creative, more energetic in its struggle to finally end the division of the world into areas of poverty and plenty”.


(AP) (2/7/2004 Agenzia Fides; Righe:26; Parole:299)


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