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’Funding' issue unresolved

Diplomats agree to principles of global poverty alleviation plan
UNITED NATIONS. Jan 28: Aller two weeks of debate, diplomats have agreed to the principles of a global plan to fight poverty, but left the biggest Issue unresolved: how to pay for it. reports AP.
The ainbiuous draft declaration. which was agreed to on Friday and is to be signed at a March 6-12 sumnyt in Copenhagen. Denmark, says the world must focus on "eradicating poverty" and' creating full employment.
The plan also calls for freer markets and liberalized trade to promote economic growth., but does not include firm commitments on funding poverty , programmes or clear target dates for its goals.
Other contentious points, such as cancelling the debt of impoverished countries ajid using more foreign aid for antipoverty programmes, were left for discussion at the summit.
More Utah 100 leaders and 10.000"delegates from aid and charity groups are expected tn attend.
Aid organizations and other groups have already said they were concerned that the World Summit for Social Development — slated to cost the United Nations 2.8 million dollars - will end up as nothing more than a debating session.
"A huge diplomatic circus of heads of state i^ust not going to be productive." said J.efSrey Laurenti. Executive Director at. the United Nations Association of the United States, a private policy research group.
"You can't even get an ■agreement on the nature and solutions for these problems in wealthy countries." Laurenti said 'The prospects of getting them to agree on providing resources for the colossal prob-
iems In the poor countries is hopeless."
The United -States and many European nations were cool to the idea of a summit when it was first proposed in 1991 and have demanded that the summit agenda not include calls for an increase tn foreign aid or blanket debt relief for developing countries. ‘
"Governments are not . spending more money." said Timothy Wirth, the h^ad of the US delegation to the preparatory conference. "We are learning how to deal with less resources."
Delegates met late Friday and largely completed the agenda they will take to Copenhagen, leaving only procedural details to be worked out Saturday. '*
They did not agree on Hit agenda's call to eliminate the debt of developing countries and left leaving that for further
discussion at Copenhagen.
Also left for the summit Is a proposal first .mootsd by UNICEF and now backed by the United States for all na 'Hons to demote 20 per cent of their Rational budgets to anti poverty and employment pro grammes at home. Many enveloping nations have not even reached half that level, Wirth said, while the United States exceeds it.
The proposal also calls for industrialized nations to devote 20 per cent of their foreign aid to poverty and employment programmes.
Summit organizers view the ‘ meeting as crucial to focusing attention on fighting poverty.
This is the first time in history that we have reached a consensus that poverty is . morally anti politically intoler able." said Chilean Ambassador Juan Somavia. the summit or-• gantzer.