UK: Brown calls for 'emergency action' on poverty (visits B. Clinton)

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UK: Brown calls for 'emergency action' on poverty

Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 14 minutes ago
By Graeme Wilson in New York
31/07/2007

Gordon Brown plots own course in Iraq

Gordon Brown unveiled plans to send 19,000 peacekeeping troops into war-torn Darfur today as he called for a new "moral" crusade to deliver global pledges to tackle poverty and disease in the developing world.

The Prime Minister said he wanted the world to evoke the "same spirit" that saw John F Kennedy call for the creation of a peace corps in the Sixties in order to forge a "new coalition for justice."

advertisementIn a speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York today, Mr Brown announced that Britain and France had tabled an urgent UN resolution in a bid to end the brutal conflict that has claimed more than 200,000 lives and forced two million to flee their homes.

The proposals - which are expected to be approved later in the day - will see the first members of the 19,000-strong UN and African Union peacekeeping force on the ground by October.

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*It also emerged that Mr Brown had held private talks with Bill Clinton, the former US president, at the Waldorf Hotel in New York on Monday night, just hours after leaving Camp David following his mini-summit with George W Bush.

The meeting with Mr Clinton - which was not mentioned on his formal itinerary - is certain to be seen as a move to prepare for the post-Bush world, with Hillary Clinton the frontrunner in the race to become the Democratic candidate for next year’s Presidential election.

However, Downing Street official stressed that the former president was deeply involved in the battle against global poverty.


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* Interesting & a subtle jab at the current WH occupants