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LankaWeb – The West vs Global South: You Have the Numbers We Have the Money

Posted on February 9th, 2021 Sri Lanka’s envoy in China Dr Palitha Kohona-Journalist Chakravarthi Raghavan When the 134-member Group of 77, the largest single coalition of developing countries, was trying to strike a hard bargain in its negotiations with Western nations years ago, one of its envoys famously declared: You have the numbers. We have the money.” But that implicit threat – signifying the power of the purse– did not deter the G77 from playing a key role in helping shape the UN’s socio-economic agenda, including sustainable development, environmental protection, universal health care, South–South cooperation, eradication of extreme poverty and hunger – all of them culminating largely in the 17

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