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Caribbean & Central America - October 2005 (ISSN 1741-4458)
CARRIBEAN: Caribbean leaders call for assistance at UN summit
During the mid-September UN World Summit in New York, Caribbean leaders took to the podium to raise their concerns over the region's future economic development. In particular, they called into question the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were adopted in 2000 to eradicate problems ranging from extreme poverty to HIV/AIDS prevention by 2015. According to Antigua and Barbuda's Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Trevor Walker, these goals "risk being wiped away" due to "brutal" trade barriers imposed on the region by developed states. The Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom) faces acute challenges within the international economic system, he continued, whose "net result may actually be increasing levels of poverty."
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