一名聯合國發言人19日表示，南美洲左翼領袖查維斯（Hugo Chavez）和莫拉萊斯（Evo Morales），都名列聯合國24日到26日舉辦的全球金融危機會議出席者名單，是幾名最高層級的領袖之一。
聯合國大會發言人伊維斯（Enrique Yeves）告訴記者，除了委內瑞拉總統查維斯和玻利維亞總統莫拉萊斯之外，厄瓜多和塞爾維亞的領導人、伊朗和辛巴威的副總統以及一名俄羅斯的副總理，也將在會議中發言。
許多工業化的已開發國家派遣與會的都是較低層級的代表。西方使節向《路透社》表示，這是藉此表示對聯合國大會組織這次會議方式的不滿。
本屆聯合國大會主席是尼加拉瓜的前任外交部長戴斯科托（Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann），立場親左。
6月24日到26日會議以「高峰會」為名，主要目的是為了要討論金融危機對發展中國家的衝擊，同時要對改革全球金融體系的提案取得一致意見。
尼加拉瓜籍的戴斯科托是天主教的教士，在桑定民族解放陣線（Sandinista）1980年代執政時位居要職。
聯合國的西方使節抱怨，戴斯科托企圖利用這次集會，對資本主義進行審判；戴斯科托的發言人則否認了這項指控。
西方使節預期，像查維斯或莫拉萊斯等左派與會人士，會把這次會議當作批判自由貿易市場的機會，即使聯合國官員和使節都說這次會議並無形成決策的能力。
一名參與協商過程的聯合國大會代表匿名表示，要嘗試改變戴斯科托目前已準備完成的草擬提案，有實際上的難度；同時，各與會代表是否能針對具體的金融改革提案達成共識，都還不明朗。
77國集團的批評
儘管西方使節對這次高峰會有所批評，某些資深人士甚至指稱這次會議是個「笑話」、「悲劇」、「浪費時間」，來自富裕國家的G8工業國表示，他們不會錯過這次會議。
「我們仍然希望，聯合國針對金融危機表達看法。」一名西方使節表示。「聯合國在確保援助問題和氣候等議題不被遺忘，都是扮演主要論壇的角色，現在涉入金融危機問題還不算太晚。」
然而，一名來自發展中國家所組成的G77會員國資深外交官指控，西方勢力阻撓金融體系改革提案的協商。
這名G77會員國外交官指出，在會議中，金融改革提案可能無法達成共識。他說，有些西方勢力只希望提出政治宣言，這樣與會者至少能夠聲稱達成一些共識。
不過，G77所屬國家中的許多國家反對這個主意，他補充說。
「無論如何，G77會員國將不會接受任何虛幻的共識。」
在這次高峰會即將要討論的改革提案中，有一項是倡議成立全球性的委員會，監督全球金融系統；還有一項是提倡以國際貨幣基金的特別提款權（SDR）取代美元，成為全球的儲備貨幣，俄羅斯和中國都認可這個提議。
大會主席發言人伊維斯表示，除了查維斯和莫拉萊斯等左翼領袖之外，預計會參與會議的另有19國元首、副元首以及首相和31名部長級代表。聯合國192個會員國中，有3分之2的成員會參與這次高峰會。
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譯註：Group of 77，簡稱G77，創始於1964年聯合國大會期間，77個亞、非、拉美和東歐的開發中國家共同發表了《77國聯合宣言》(Joint Declaration of the 77 Countries)。目前已有134個會員國。
South American left-wing firebrands Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales are among the few heads of state attending next week's U.N. meeting on the global financial crisis, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday.
In addition to Venezuelan President Chavez and Bolivian President Morales, the leaders of Ecuador and Serbia, vice presidents of Iran and Zimbabwe and a Russian deputy prime minister will speak at the conference, U.N. General Assembly spokesman Enrique Yeves told reporters.
Most industrialized developed countries are sending much lower-level delegations to the meeting, which Western diplomats told Reuters was a reflection of their dissatisfaction with the way the president of the General Assembly, a leftist former foreign minister of Nicaragua, has organized the meeting.
The official purpose of the June 24-26 conference -- billed as a "summit" -- is to discuss the impact the financial crisis has had on the developing world and to agree on proposals to reform the global financial system.
Western diplomats have complained that assembly president Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, a Roman Catholic priest who was in Nicaragua's Sandinista government throughout the 1980s, has tried to use the upcoming conference to put capitalism on trial, an allegation his spokesman has flatly rejected.
They also said they expected participants like Chavez and Morales would use the conference -- which U.N. officials and diplomats say will have no decision-making powers -- as an opportunity to rail against free markets.
Attempts to revise a set of draft proposals prepared by D'Escoto's office have been difficult and it remains unclear if delegations will be able to reach a consensus on concrete financial reform proposals, diplomats involved in the negotiations told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
G77 CRITICISM
Despite their criticism of the conference -- various senior Western envoys referred to it as a "joke," "tragedy" and a "waste of time" -- diplomats from the Group of Eight club of wealthy nations say they have not dismissed it altogether.
"We still want the U.N. to have something to say about the financial crisis," one Western diplomat said. "It's not too late for it to play a role as a key forum for ensuring that aid and climate are issues that are not forgotten about."
One senior diplomat from the Group of 77 bloc of developing nations, however, accused the Western powers of obstructing negotiations on reform proposals.
The G77 diplomat said it was possible there would be no proposals agreed at the conference. Some Western powers, he said, wanted to issue a bland political declaration so that participants could at least say they agreed on something.
But many G77 countries opposed the idea, he added.
"The G77 will not accept consensus at any cost," he said.
Among the reform proposals being discussed are the creation of a world council to oversee the global financial system, or the replacement of the U.S. dollar with the International Monetary Fund's Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) as the world's reserve currency, an idea that both Russia and China have endorsed.
In addition to Chavez and Morales, 19 other presidents, vice presidents and prime ministers and 31 ministers are expected to attend, Yeves said. Two-thirds of the 192 U.N. member states will participate in the conference.
(Reuters) |
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