North-South Commission

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The North-South Commission ( N.-S.-K. , also Brandt Commission ) was an "Independent Commission for International Development Issues " founded in 1977 under the chairmanship of Willy Brandt . It was set up under the suggestion of the then World Bank President Robert McNamara and was devoted to development problems.

Political work

After more than two years, the Commission on 12. February 1980 in New York City to the Secretary General of the United Nations the first North-South Report ( Brandt Report or Brandt Report ) entitled "Ensuring survival" in front. The report drew attention to the current problems in the Third World . Among other things, he offered a new world economic order as a possible solution and called for the countries of the south to be included.

Against the background of the hardening east-west fronts , however, the proposals in the western world of states were viewed with skepticism, as they appeared to have a socialist touch. Partly because of a lack of funds and partly because of economically liberal attitudes, some Western governments do not support the proposals for a new order in the world economic system.

After the outcome of the North-South Summit in Cancun , Mexico in 1981 , the Commission decided to continue its work and once again call for measures to deal with serious problems in the world economy. The second Brandt report of the North-South Commission appeared in 1982 under the title “Help in the World Crisis”.

Members

The North-South Commission consisted of 18 politicians and scientists from developing and industrialized countries :

  1. Willy Brandt ( Federal Republic of Germany )
  2. Abdalativ Y. Al-Hamad ( Kuwait )
  3. Rodrigo Botero ( Colombia )
  4. Antoine Kipsa Dakouré ( Upper Volta )
  5. Eduardo Frei Montalva ( Chile )
  6. Katharine Graham ( USA )
  7. Edward Heath ( Great Britain )
  8. Amir H. Jamal ( Tanzania )
  9. Khatijah Ahmad ( Malaysia )
  10. Lakshmi Kant Jha ( India )
  11. Adam Malik ( Indonesia )
  12. Haruki Mori ( Japan )
  13. Joe Morris ( Canada )
  14. Olof Palme ( Sweden )
  15. Peter G. Peterson ( USA )
  16. Edgar Pisani ( France )
  17. Shridath Ramphal ( Guyana )
  18. Layachi Yaker ( Algeria )

Ex officio , Göran Ohlin (Sweden) was the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Directors of the Secretariat were Dragoslav Avramović (Yugoslavia) and Jan Pronk (Netherlands).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Judith Michel: Willy Brandts Amerikabild und -politik 1933 - 1992 , (= Dittmar Dahlmann, inter alia, International Relations. Theory and History , Volume 6), Bonn 2010, p. 429.
  2. ↑ Willy Brandt: Help in the world crisis. An immediate program. The 2nd report of the North-South Commission , Reinbek 1983, p. 165.

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