24 September 2008 - 13H36
Is the UN ready for a new era of crises?
As more than one hundred heads of state and government gather in New York for the 63rd annual United Nations General Assembly, we look at the multiple challenges facing the organisation. (Part 1 of 2)
As more than one hundred heads of state and government gather in New York for the 63rd annual United Nations General Assembly, we look at the multiple challenges facing the organisation. How, in particular, to persuade the world's richest countries to meet their commitments to cut global poverty in half by 2012 when they are themselves being racked by the worst crisis in the financial markets since the 1930s. And is the organisation itself in need of a radical overhaul to reflect a radically changed international environment?
Robert Parsons's guests are:
Philip Golub, professor of International Relations at Paris VIII University and Christian Stoffaes, chairman of the board of CEPII, a French research center in international economics.
European MP Pervenche Berès, chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs at the European Parliament.
Horst Fischer, president of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice.
France24 international affairs correspondent Armen Georgian.
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