Mankind faces three interconnected crises - Ban Ki Moon

Almaty. July 9. Kazakhstan Today - The mankind has faced three interconnected crises: food crisis, crisis of change of climate and crisis of development. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said at the press conference at the end of the first day of G8 summit in Japan on Tuesday, the agency reports referring to the UN News Center.

Ban Ki Moon emphasized that all these problems are interconnected and demand the same approach for their solution.

He drew attention to the fact that many countries, first of all African, are in the beginning of their way of development of achievement of goals of millennium. The UN Secretary General considers that this situation is possible and needs to be changed. For this purpose countries-donors should carry out their obligations on rendering official aid. By 2010 size of this help for Africa will reach Africa $62 billion a year.

The UN Secretary General paid attention to high death rate among women in developing countries and emphasized that $10 billion a year will turn this tendency back. He emphasized the necessity of more active struggle with HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and forgotten tropical illnesses.

The UN Secretary General expressed concern on occasion of rise of prices for foodstuffs that can undermine efforts on achievement of goals of millennium. He urged to increase a share of official aid for development of agriculture from current 3 % up to 10 %.

Concerning climate change, Ban Ki Moon declared that the countries should set a long-term objective - to reduce by 2050 twice the level of emissions of hotbed gases in the atmosphere. He expressed hope that in December of 2009 in Copenhagen the new universal agreement on climate change will be accepted, which will be a successor of Kyoto Protocol.

The UN Secretary General declared that it is necessary to strengthen existing financial mechanisms and to create new channels of rendering assistance to developing countries with a view of support of their efforts in adaptation to consequences of climatic change. He noted that by the end of this year it is necessary to create special fund to finance such efforts.

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