I just realized that everything is truly finished ... almost two years of work, sweat, concern for the G8 and there's nothing I can do to squeeze positive results ... What I see instead is yet another series of great ads, great intentions and no action . The only concrete results are were now recommends that the G8 to keep global warming below two degrees celsius and that seems to be no new money for food and agriculture. It seems we do not know how much of the promised 20 billion is really new.
could be just another way of old promises repackaged sums in the past. In the meantime, however, the number of people suffering from hunger every day on the planet has grown a billion ... How
Prime Minister Berlusconi is chair of this G8 summit is his third. It was he who signed a solemn pledge at the G8 in Gleneagles to ensure 50 billion extra for poor countries, half of which for Africa next year. Many times in recent months said he would keep his word. He told Geldof and other NGOs such as Oxfam International and Ucodep only a few days ago.
We heard from his government and also by the Italian Foreign Minister. And yet we have not heard a word about how to realize this promise. At 12 months of the end, we must still find $ 23 billion to feed the hungry, to send in more than 80 million children in school and to save a mother Retail certain death in childbirth. Berlusconi has only announced that Italy will pay its annual fee to the Global Fund and will invest in new ways to deliver aid. ... not a great way to lead by example. The other G8 countries have quickly adapted to the situation and have carefully avoided addressing the topic.
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