Overcoming the "paradox of a multilateral consensus which keeps being in a crisis because it is dependent on the decisions of the few" and "cooperating more and more transparently with the civil organisations working to bridge the extending gap between wealth and poverty". This is the double invitation made today by the Pope in the message read by the Secretary of State, card. Tarcisio Bertone sent to the FAO Summit, which opened in Rome today. In the message, Benedict XVI exhorts to "continue those structural reforms that are essential to successfully face the problems of underdevelopment, of which hunger and malnutrition are the direct consequences". According to the Pope, "poverty and malnutrition are not a mere fatality", because "strictly economic or technical considerations should not prevail over the duty of being fair with all the victims of famine". Actually the right to food is a "primary right, intrinsically bonded to the protection and defence of human life". "Every person is entitled to a life!", recalled the Pope, as he invited to "promote the actual implementation of such right" and "help the populations who suffer because of the lack of food to gradually become capable of fulfilling their needs for adequate, health food". (continued).
