UN General Assembly
2008

Taking into account the upcoming review of the financing for development process, which will take place in Doha at the end of the year, Paraguay calls for the international community to mobilize its external resources to provide decisive support for the development of small economies. That is a priority both for both international financial bodies and developed economies. We would like the call for just international trade to become a true impetus for development. Many of our countries have communities in various places in the world. Just like Europeans who in the past century came to America, today many friends and families from our regions seek better prospects in the countries of Europe and in North America. We call upon the humanitarian, brotherly, hospitable sense — the same that our continent showed in the past in sharing its scarce resources — in nations that today take in our migrants, who are dreaming of having a job and the right to a dignified life, far from their countries. The human dimension of that drama calls for