New UN General Assembly President calls for ‘global governance’; Czech president says, not so fast!

Countries welcome new Assembly President’s focus on global governance

Joseph Deiss, President of 65th session of the General Assembly

21 September 2010 – Several countries have expressed support for the initiative of the General Assembly President to make global governance a central theme of the current session of the United Nations body.

Czech president tells UN to stay out of economics; Opposes calls for increased 'global governance'...

* Klaus opposes calls for increased UN role in economics

* Says more regulation is wrong way out of crisis

By Louis Charbonneau

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Saturday criticized U.N. calls for increased "global governance" of the world's economy, saying the world body should leave that role to national governments.

The solution to dealing with the global economic crisis, Klaus told the U.N. General Assembly, did not lie in "creating new governmental and supranational agencies, or in aiming at global governance of the world economy."

"On the contrary, this is the time for international organizations, including the United Nations, to reduce their expenditures, make their administrations thinner, and leave the solutions to the governments of member states," he said.