Anti-climax at the UN summit


  • Letters
  • Tuesday, 20 Sep 2005

The hopes that last week’s United Nations Summit of 149 political heads would reform the UN and give a boost to development were mainly unfulfilled. There were a few advances, but too few to offset what was omitted. 

THE United Nations Summit last week turned out to be anti-climax, although it gathered heads of government and state of 149 countries at its headquarters in New York. 

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