U.N. General Assembly Adopts Draft Resolution calling for ''Creation of World Solidarity Fund''New York, 21 December 2002 (Tapex)
A decisive step has been taken on the way of materializing President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's initiative with a view to creating a World Solidarity Fund to fight against poverty, combat inequality in the world and establish an atmosphere of mutual aid between peoples.
In fact, the United Nations' General Assembly has adopted the draft resolution calling for ''the creation of a World Solidarity Fund for the elimination of poverty and the promotion of human development in developing countries.''
On this occasion, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) administrator March Malloch Brown praised this adoption. He voiced his enthusiastic support for the creation of this fund, which draws its inspiration from the successful experience of the national solidarity fund established by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and which made it possible to reduce the rate of poverty to about 4 % in Tunisia. He said he was delighted that ''the United Nations had decided to try out this innovative mechanism worldwide.''
For his part, Tunisia's permanent representative to the UN reminded of the world solidarity fund's targets, and launched a call to the international community, the governments, the private sector, the foundations, the international organizations and the civil society in general to give a substantial contribution to the world solidarity fund in to enable its functioning in the shortest terms.
Several delegations paid tribute to President Ben Ali's initiative and praised Tunisia for this new mechanism meant to finance development particularly in most underprivileged countries.
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