U.N. kicks off summit with call to action (AP) Updated: 2005-09-14 21:45
A summit marking the 60th anniversary of the United
Nations opened Wednesday with an appeal for collective action to prevent
conflict and genocide and to protect human rights, the Associated Press
reported.
The U.N. General Assembly meets, Tuesday,
Sept. 13, 2005, at the United Nations. With the U.N. summit a day away,
negotiators tried to agree Tuesday on a watered-down plan for reforming
the United Nations, having abandoned many of the sweeping changes
recommended by Secretary-General Kofi Annan. [AP]
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Facing more than 150 world leaders, summit co-chair Goran Persson of Sweden
warned that millions of lives will be lost if significant steps aren't taken now
to fight global poverty "and we will pass on a more unfair and more unsafe world
to the next generation."
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