CLINTON - Urges end to global inequities after war

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Monday October 15 1:14 PM ET

Clinton Urges End to Global Inequalities After War

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Monday the United States and its allies had to win the war against terrorism but in the long run the West also had to bring an end to global inequalities.

Speaking at a human rights conference in the Czech capital, Clinton repeated his support for his successor George W. Bush, and the action taken following last month's suicide attacks on the United States.

``At the moment we have to win the fight we are in, but over the long run we have to spread the benefits and shrink the burdens of this new age,'' he said.

``We have to get people in the developing world to turn away from primitive hatreds, we have to get people in the developed world to turn away from short-sighted selfishness,'' he said.

He said global inequalities fueled violence and the United States and other wealthy countries had to do more to combat poverty, AIDS and environmental issues such as global warming.

Bush in March pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto treaty on climate change, saying the deal, signed by Clinton, would harm the U.S. economy.

By withdrawing from the accord, Bush removed the world's biggest economy and the emitter of one quarter of the globe's man-made greenhouse gases, from a system based on countries of the world acting in concert.

-- Anonymous, October 15, 2001


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