Failure to form "effective global partnership" leads to global crises growing to "critical proportions," says Indonesia

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 30 — Indonesia said Tuesday that because the international community "failed to form an effective global partnership," the pressing challenges "all grew to critical proportions."

Addressing the annual debate of the UN General Assembly, which entered its last day here, Indonesia Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda placed the cause of the "overarching crisis" at the failure of multilateralism.

"That is the reality that came about because the international community has failed to form an effective global partnership to address the large bundle of challenges that ultimately affect all humankind," Wirajuda said.

"The root cause of this overarching crisis is a failure of multilateralism, a failure to forge a system of democratic governance at the global level," he added.

Wirajuda called on the "reform of the relationships between and among nations in the world today," in the theme of multilateralism, to combat the urgent crises which he named–the economic and financial crisis, climate change, food security and energy security.

Wirajuda cited the recent G20 Summit in Pittsburgh as an example of a "new and constructive power equation in terms of sharing of responsibilities and contributions," "Through the G20 the voice of the developing world will be heard in international economic and financial decision-making," he said.

Warning that "we are actually in the grip of one systemic crisis," in which all the global problems "fed on one another," he pressed urgency in reforms for these pressing crises.

Pushing for a consensus in climate change at December's talks in Copenhagen, Wirajuda stated that we can prevent the negative impacts of climate change on "forging an equitable and transparent partnership between developed and developing nations." (PNA/Xinhua)

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