> >RHC Viewpoint - South Summit - 3 Apr 2000 > > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > >Radio Havana Cuba's VIEWPOINT - 3 April 2000 > > >UPCOMING SOUTH SUMMIT WILL BE DECISIVE FOR UNITY AND MUTUAL COOPERATION > >At the beginning of next week, more than 50 heads of state and government of >the Group of 77 will meet in Havana for the South Summit. The meeting takes >its name from the fact that underdeveloped nations are primarily located in >the world's Southern Hemisphere. This is a region where economically >disadvantaged countries -- through united action and mutual cooperation -- >are in a position to find common solutions to their common problems. > >Many of these nations of the South emerged from European colonialism and >economic dependency, only to become submerged in conditions of poverty, >illiteracy and abysmal health -- without any viable way to get out of the >situation. The policy that has been traditionally followed by the rich and >powerful nations against the poor majority has been to divide and conquer. >The main objective is obviously to make exploitation of the region's natural >resources easier, providing raw materials for the industrial North. > >The Third World has come to realize that the most important political and >strategic objective is to build unity. This unity will strengthen the Third >World's hand in negotiations with the industrialized countries, which have >long overpowered their neighbors to the South. One example of this imbalance >between North and South is the skyrocketing multi-billion dollar foreign >debt of Third World nations -- something that is totally unpayable and >uncollectable. Each year, these countries must devote greater amounts of >money to pay the ever-growing interest rates, depriving their citizens of >many important social services. > >If unity is not achieved, the sinister formula of "divide and conquer" will >continue. The underdeveloped countries cannot allow such a situation to go >on indefinitely and the South Summit, which gets underway next week in the >Cuban capital, will be an opportunity to put an end to this madness. > >(c) 2000 Radio Habana Cuba. All rights reserved. > >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >================================================================= > >nytcari-04.04.00-02:03:14-4334 > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >@Backup- Protect and Access your data any time, any where on the net. >Try @Backup FREE and recieve 300 points from mypoints.com Install now: >http://click.egroups.com/1/2345/0/_/30563/_/954828203/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Cuba SI: http://www.egroups.com/group/cubasi/ > >Imperialism NO! Venceremos! > >Information and discussion about Cuba. > >Discussion of the path of Ernesto Che Guevara. > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
