Globalization battle moves to UN

  • 09/04/2000

  • International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)

The stormy battle over globalization that brought protests to the streets of Seattle and Washington moves to heart of the world's only truly global organization : the United Nations. An extraordinary, three-day Millennium Summit meeting of more than 150 world leaders called to thrash out problems of poverty and peace is turning instead into a debate about the future of the organization, and the world, at a time when national boundaries have become nearly as irrelevant to economic and political tides.