30th September 2013
President Jakaya Kikwete has said that the lack of
political will and desire has contributed to the continuous existence of
extreme poverty in the world.
President Kikwete said the world is endowed with enough resources and which if well utilized could end poverty in the world.
“In a world where there is enough food for everyone, there is no need for any person to sleep on empty stomach. The world, in which we live today, has plenty of resources and there is no need for people to live in deep poverty,” the President told the United Nation 68th General Conference on Friday.
The main theme of the Conference which took place in New York is ‘Post-2015 Development Agenda: Setting the Stage.’
The President noted that although through Millennium Develop Goals poverty has been trimmed by at least half over the past few years; at least 1.2 billion people are still living in extreme poverty in the world.
Apart from the 1.2 billion, 19,000 children and 800 women die of curable and preventable diseases that arise as a result of poverty in the world every day.
“This is intolerable especially with all sorts of blessings the world has. The world has registered a number of developments that it has never registered before. Political as well as technological developments can be used to curb the challenges that face the society,” noted the President.
The continuous existence of poverty in the world however is also contributed by the tendency of the rich nations delaying to disburse money they promised for MDGs, a -15 years project which is due in 2015.
Kikwete noted that if the rich nations had disbursed enough funds for the MDGs as it was agreed in the year 2000, the world would have managed to achieve all the MDGs.
“If the developed nations would disburse enough funds and resources in the MDGs as agreed by G2 and G20 conferences, all the MDGs could have been achieved,” said Kikwete in his 15 minutes speech and added: “In this regard, it is self deception if we discuss what to do after MDGs 2015 without discussing the primary issue of funding the MDGs. This is also true concerning the remaining two years of the MDGs.”
In a related development, Kikwete said it was obvious that United Nations Security Council needs primary but internal revolution.
“It is right to say that the UN needs some thought of primary revolution. Our failure to accept such revolution leaves much to be desired on our will to strengthen the UN which has the duty of serving all the nations in the world. We say such revolution has been delayed a lot,” noted the President.
According to Kikwete, as nations keep on pressing for the revolution of the UN, the African continent will not get tired nor reduce the pressure of pressing for the revolution within the UN Security Council so that the continent which has a big number of presentation in the council get stainable presentation and voice.
President Kikwete said the world is endowed with enough resources and which if well utilized could end poverty in the world.
“In a world where there is enough food for everyone, there is no need for any person to sleep on empty stomach. The world, in which we live today, has plenty of resources and there is no need for people to live in deep poverty,” the President told the United Nation 68th General Conference on Friday.
The main theme of the Conference which took place in New York is ‘Post-2015 Development Agenda: Setting the Stage.’
The President noted that although through Millennium Develop Goals poverty has been trimmed by at least half over the past few years; at least 1.2 billion people are still living in extreme poverty in the world.
Apart from the 1.2 billion, 19,000 children and 800 women die of curable and preventable diseases that arise as a result of poverty in the world every day.
“This is intolerable especially with all sorts of blessings the world has. The world has registered a number of developments that it has never registered before. Political as well as technological developments can be used to curb the challenges that face the society,” noted the President.
The continuous existence of poverty in the world however is also contributed by the tendency of the rich nations delaying to disburse money they promised for MDGs, a -15 years project which is due in 2015.
Kikwete noted that if the rich nations had disbursed enough funds for the MDGs as it was agreed in the year 2000, the world would have managed to achieve all the MDGs.
“If the developed nations would disburse enough funds and resources in the MDGs as agreed by G2 and G20 conferences, all the MDGs could have been achieved,” said Kikwete in his 15 minutes speech and added: “In this regard, it is self deception if we discuss what to do after MDGs 2015 without discussing the primary issue of funding the MDGs. This is also true concerning the remaining two years of the MDGs.”
In a related development, Kikwete said it was obvious that United Nations Security Council needs primary but internal revolution.
“It is right to say that the UN needs some thought of primary revolution. Our failure to accept such revolution leaves much to be desired on our will to strengthen the UN which has the duty of serving all the nations in the world. We say such revolution has been delayed a lot,” noted the President.
According to Kikwete, as nations keep on pressing for the revolution of the UN, the African continent will not get tired nor reduce the pressure of pressing for the revolution within the UN Security Council so that the continent which has a big number of presentation in the council get stainable presentation and voice.
SOURCE:
THE GUARDIAN
