UN Financial Summit Attracts 14 World Leaders

EDITH M. LEDERER

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The president of the U.N. General Assembly postponed a financial summit aimed at giving the developing world a bigger voice in tackling the global economic crisis in hopes of attracting more world leaders. To date, he hasn't succeeded.

Just 14 heads of state and government -- out of the total of 192 U.N. member states -- will attend the June 24-26 summit, most prominently Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivia's President Evo Morales, General Assembly spokesman Enrique Yeves said Friday.

Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, a leftist Nicaraguan priest and former foreign minister, also delayed the summit from early June to give negotiators more time to reach agreement on the final document to be issued at the end of the meeting. ...