United Nations, April 28, 2009. UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, called today the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) to forge consensus to face poverty, climate change, food insecurity and other crises threatening the world. In a message addressed to the NOAL ministerial conference, which opened today in Havana, the head of the UN indicates that while these crises are related and their impact is global, "our response should also be global."

Ban Ki Moon’s message would be delivered to the representatives of the 118 member countries gathered in Havana by his aide for Political Affairs Haile Menkerios.

In his message, the UN Secretary General emphasizes that although poor nations are not to blame for the crisis, they suffer its worst consequences, including a reduction in growth, credits, development aid, remittances and trade.

In this sense, the South Korean diplomat asked to strengthen collective action and take every opportunity out there as the upcoming Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development, slated to take place at the UN next June.

The UN Secretary General said that the current crises cannot cast a shadow over other common efforts, as the achievement of the Development Millennium Goals set by UN in 2000 to end poverty and extreme hunger by 2015. (Cubaminrex- RHC)