UN General Assembly
2009

and the World Bank; that is indispensable. Voting rights need to be more equitably distributed. The missions of both the Fund and the Bank need to be redefined. To maintain the Fund as the guardian of an orthodoxy that has been so severely shaken by the crisis would be a tragic mistake. The international system has to be reformed. We cannot have a politically multipolar world with a single currency. That is not acceptable; it is not possible. We have to re-engineer the financial capitalism system. If we have a system in which the real price of risk or the real price of rare resources is not being paid, that is a suicidal system. We need to eliminate tax havens, for we must not tolerate places where money derived from speculation, crime and fraud is stashed. It is up to us. No one in the world would understand if we were to fail to live up to this objective. We need to curb the price swings of commodities that are subject to excessive speculation, starting with