Greater democracy, greater multilateralism, more responsibility, more powers and more resources for the UN!

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Increasingly concerned by developments affecting international multilateral democratic governance, the signatories, at the initiative of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks - UBUNTU, wish to report public opinion on the following considerations and demands:

1. The year 2005 saw a series of grave setbacks to hopes that international multilateral policies might be brought to bear to help resolve the serious, steadily growing problems that face humanity. Neither the UN Summit of Heads of State and Government in September, nor the WTO meeting in December produced the commitments, proposals or resources necessary to meet these challenges. None of the hopes generated by the UN Millennium Summits (where the Millennium Development Goals were initiated), on Financing for Development in Monterrey and Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, have been brought to fruition, even minimally, at the supposedly crucial meetings which took place in 2005.

1. Firstly, the UN’s capacity and ability to work for development was "hijacked" and "transferred" to the "market", mainly through the World Trade Organisation. However, its failed ministerial conference in Hong Kong only salvaged in "extremis" the existence of the own WTO and, in any case, it most benefited again the interests of the richest.

2. Secondly, proposed UN reforms concerning such issues as peace, security, disarmament and human rights, with the honourable exception of the Peacebuilding Commission in 2005, failed to yet materialise.

2. However, faced by such a lamentable situation, the one thing we must not do is to weaken the UN’s capacities and possibilities even further. The UN will be and do what the Member States finally decide it should be and do. However, there does not appear to be much agreement on this point either; on the contrary, spanners are being put in the works. 1. Of the UN budget approved for the 2006-2007 period, only the proportional amount for the first half of 2006 has been effectively made available. In a form of blackmail practised by certain States (particularly, and as usual recently, the USA) budget funds will only be released if certain reforms are put into effect. Strangely enough, though, these conditions have more to do with management and administration reforms than, for example, with the new Human Rights Council, the Security Council or the relationship with civil society.

2. Moreover, the Follow-up to the Monterrey Summit, which should take place in 2007 and is crucial for many issues concerning financing for development, has been adjourned sine die until 2008 or 2009.

3. It is clear that none of the great developments we were confidently led to expect from WTO negotiations has come to fruition, and that, instead of democratising, strengthening and giving greater powers to the UN, the organisation has been economically and politically hijacked.

The Polycentric World Social Forum of Bamako and Caracas clearly shows the extreme urgency of the need for radical changes in multilateral international policies that allow work towards meeting the needs of the majority of the world’s population. In this framework, and facing this situation, the signatories call on the world’s citizens to join us in demanding that the UN Member States must work to make the UN more democratic, more multilateral and more responsible, and to provide the organisation with the powers and resources it needs to resolve the grave problems facing humanity as a whole.

Federico Mayor Fundación para una Cultura de Paz Mario Soares Fundaçao Mario Soares Susan George Écrivain José Saramago Prix Nobel de Littérature Noam Chomsky Écrivain Willy Thys World Confederation of Labour William R. Pace World Federalist Movement - Institute for Global Policy Fatma Alloo DAWN - Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era Roberto Savio Inter Press Service François Houtard Centre Tricontinental ,CETRI Chico Whitaker Justiça e Paz - Brazil Alexander Likhotal Green Cross International Mohammed Fayek The Arab Organization for Human Rights Lois Barber EarthAction Ricardo Díez Hochleitner Président émérit Club de Rome Kin Chi Lau ARENA Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives Marino Busdachin Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation Sara Longwe FEMNET - The African Women’s Development and Communications Richard A. Falk Princeton University, Professor of International Law Emeritus Paul Ortega Pax Romana - IMICA Martí Olivella Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World Carlos Tünnerman Instituto Latinoamericano de Educación para el Desarrollo ILAEDES Angel Strapazzon MOCASE - Via Campesina Rocío Valdeavellano Jubilee South Ricardo Verástegui Lopez Jubilee South Juan Federer Center of War/Peace Studies Donald Charumbira World Assembly of Youth Arcadi Oliveres Justice and Peace, Europe Jorge Nieto Montesinos Centro Internacional para la Cultura Democrática Agustí Colomines Centre Unesco de Catalunya Josep Ferrer Llop Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Gurutz Jáuregui Universidad del País Vasco Ferran Requejo Universitat Pompeu Fabra Josep Xercavins i Valls UBUNTU Forum Ad Hoc Secretariat

Adhérées au communiqué

Carlos Villan - Asoc.Esp.Desarrollo y Aplicación del Dcho Intl Dchos Humanos, Espagne Otu, Uwem Robert - African Youth Movement, Nigeria Maxime des Gayets - RéSo, France Marie Chantal Schmitz , Belgique Carles Furriols i Solà - Fundació H. Dr. Trueta, Espagne Andreas Bummel - Committee for a Democratic UN, Allemagne Nadia Scardeoni , Italie Pere Ros Céspedes - particular, Espagne Montse Sagarra Fitó - Federació Estatal Agroalimentaria CCOO/Secretaria dona, Espagne Dick Burkhart - Coalition for a World Parliament and Global Democracy, USA Ramesh Man Tuladhar - Nepal Earth Society, Népal Ton Dalmau - Fòrum de trobadors per un Món Nou, Espagne Montserrat Crespín Perales - Universitat de Barcelona, Espagne Pep Pérez - Valencians pel Canvi, Espagne Javier Rodriguez , Espagne Ignasi de Juan - Fundació Cassià Just, Espagne José Armando Gallego Barrera - Universidad de Murcia, Espagne Paul Baskar - Peace Trust, Inde Jose Manuel Arizaga Alvarez , Espagne Maria Rosa Mayo Tagarro , Espagne Patricia Villamil - Center for Latin American/Caribbean Studies, FIU, USA Fabricio Carlos Vagliente - MCE latina, Argentine Pedro Sánchez Durán , Espagne Manuel Zaguirre Cano - Unión Sindical Obrera (USO), Espagne Marino de la Rocha - Sotermun, Espagne Santiago González - Comité de Solidaridad con la Causa Árabe, Espagne Eduard Vallory , Espagne Lluís Díaz - Coordinadora Penedès ONU veto NO, Espagne Andreu Rodriguez - a titiol personal, Espagne Bertha Elena Munguía Gil - CASDE, A.C., Mexique Merce Busquet i Bosch - Moviment contra la Guerra, Espagne Agustín Bueno Rodriguez , Espagne Carmela Capeáns Leis , Espagne Antonio Alonso Diaz Arriaga - UNAM, Mexique Fidel Asante - Arms Reduction Coalition, Reino Unido Manuel Pinos , Espagne Luis Gustavo Cáceres - Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral Sostenible - APDIS, Pérou Jennifer Williams Ramos , Espagne Pep Lobera - Càtedra UNESCO en Desenvolupament Sostenible (UPC), Espagne Emili Chalaux i Ferrer - ACAT (Acció dels cristians per l’Abolició de la Tortura), Espagne Lucio C. Giummo , Italie Giuseppe Casarrubea - Associazione vittime Strage Portella, Italie Adolfo Ferreira , Brésil Luisa González Hurtado , Espagne Faniola Wanda Marin Salgado - Vida Autonoma, cooperacion y Desarrollo - VIDAU, Espagne Huw Coxon - VIDAU Pedro Vallejos Hayden - Corporación NuevoChile, Chili Mohammad Ziaul Ahsan - Organization for Social Development of Unemployed Youth, Bangladesh Xavi Ortega - CCD-UPC, Espagne Joseph Offiong Akpan - African Youth Movement, Nigeria Montse García Moya , Espagne Rosa López Torrijos , Espagne

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