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Progressive International launches global process to build a 'New International Economic Order'

THE Progressive International (PI) today launches a global process to build a “new international economic order fit for the 21st century”.

The new initiative was launched at a multilateral summit in midtown Manhattan at the People’s Forum in partnership with UN Permanent Representatives, sitting and former ministers from eight governments across the global South. 

Speaking at the event, Cuban ambassador Yusnier Romero Puentes announced that the Cuban government had invited the PI to hold a global congress in their country on January 25 2023. 

In his invitation letter, Cuba’s Marti Programme general vice-director Dr Hector Hernandez Pardo wrote: “We believe that the Progressive International is well positioned to bring together thinkers and leaders from across the global South to shape a common vision and build a strategy to win the policies and proposals necessary for a new, just, world order.”

The Havana Congress will try to develop the text of a new UN Declaration on the NIEO, work on proposals for national, regional, and global co-operation, and celebrate Cuba’s historic leadership in constructing the infrastructure of South-South solidarity.

Progressive International’s general co-ordinator David Adler said: “Today, we are again in a moment of rapid geopolitical transformation with the end of the unipolar domination of the United States — but we lack a common vision of the multipolar world that is now in formation. 

“Next month in Havana, we will bring together governments, political representatives, popular movements, scholars and policymakers to start the process of constructing that common vision and building the power to bring it about.”

Members of the PI include Colombian President Gustavo Petro, Libre, the political party of Honduran President Xiomara Castro and Convergencia Social, the political party of Chilean President Gabriel Boric.

 

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