"At the start of the year, we are asked to cast a glance at the international situation to look at the challenges that we are called to tackle together": this was said this morning in the Vatican by the Pope, in his speech to the diplomatic corps, on the occasion of the ceremony for the exchange of the greetings for the New Year. "Among the basic issues, how can we not think of the millions of people, especially women and children, who have no water, food or a roof on their heads? went on Benedict XVI -. The outrage of hunger tends to get worse, it is unacceptable in a world that has the goods, the knowledge and the means to put an end to it". According to the Pope, "we must wish that the trade negotiations of the ‘Doha Development Round’ of the World Trade Organisation will be resumed, such as the continuation and acceleration of the writing off and reduction of the debt in the poorer countries, without subjecting it to any structural adjustment measure, which is detrimental to the more vulnerable peoples".
