G-20 or G-192: Which is more 'global'?

PR Log (Press Release) – Jul 02, 2009 – "[The] G-20 is not a legitimate organization in the sense that it does not represent the countries. It's a self-appointed group," Martin Khor says of the G-20 meeting this past April. "And many countries that I
spoke to say that 'I do not feel included in the G-20, and our views are not represented there and the decisions have nothing to do with us. So, there is a feeling of being left out, of being excluded."

At the London Summit 2009 in April, G-20 countries gathered to discuss global solutions to the economic crisis, focusing on the themes of "growth, stability, jobs." The summit emphasized global by discussing xtending invitations to all of the United Nations 192 member countries to join the General Assembly.

At the summit, current President of the UN General Assembly Miguel D'Escoto-Brockmann said of the invitations: "We have built a globalized economy. Now is our chance to create a globalized policy and ethics based on the many cultural experiences and traditions of our peoples."

Byron Blake, Ambassador to the UN from Jamaica, also serves as a Special Adviser to D'Escoto-Brockmann and says that the G-20 was expanding its definition of "global" in the midst of the economic crisis.
"[The] G-20 conception was that they think it's only peripherally affecting the developing countries, it really is affecting the developed countries, and therefore the solution must be in the developed countries," Blake says. "This conference is making it clear that the impact is much more on the developing countries, which had nothing to do with the origin of the crisis. But they are the one picking up the real hard impacts of it."

Blake also says that it was not just the people in developing countries that should be angry at the system that has brought on the economic crisis. "[B]ecause the people in developed countries are also suffering. It's that all people, they should have to be angry about the system which allows that kind of thing to take place, and therefore justify the need for really changing the system fundamentally going forward."

In the second part of the video series, TRNN producer Jesse Freeston analyzes how the dynamics of the global economic discussion will alter when the General Assembly expands from the G-20 to the G-192.

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