An invitation to the international community "to support the Brussels Plan of Action (Bpoa)” and an appeal "to a surge of solidarity with the world’s least developed countries (Ldcs)”. This was asked by mgr. Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, as he spoke yesterday in New York at the "High-Level Meeting on the global verification of the implementation of the plan of action for the Ldcs in the decade 2001-2010″. Retaining "the trade rules that are favourable to the Ldcs” and creating new ones "where there are none", writing off foreign debts, investing in the development of medical research and creating "dignified jobs": these are the main directions provided by mgr. Migliore. Despite the progress made by some Ldcs, according to the Vatican diplomat, it is an "extremely vulnerable growth because it is virtually all connected with the export of raw materials, especially oil, which cannot reduce poverty or improve human rights”. (to be continued)
