COLLEEN MCEDWARDS, WORLD NEWS: Cuban president Fidel Castro is turning his attention to a more far-reaching problem - the economic problems facing his country and other developing nations. He says the damage to poor nations from the global economy is comparable to the Holocaust. CNN's Bill Delaney reports on Mr. Castro's remarks at the Group of 77 summit.</s>BILL DELANEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At the G-77's first- ever meeting outside the United Nations, there were representatives of the next generation and the presence of the patriarch, Cuban president Fidel Castro, seeming to want to get things going at one point. And greeting some of the delegates from 122 countries in Havana, representing most of the 133 developing nations in the G-77, a group created back in 1964 to address issues important to the world's poorer nations. Castro promised journalists he'd give a short speech - only two or three hours, he said. In fact, he spoke much more briefly but pointedly, calling for the developing world to unite as never before, to seek debt relief and break the power, he said, of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. UN general secretary Kofi Annan, though, said what the developing world needed more was liberalization.</s>KOFI ANNAN, UN SECRETARY-GENERAL: A country's economic success depends in large measure on the quality of governance it enjoys.</s>DELANEY: The meeting of the Group of 77 continues in Havana through Friday. (on camera): A draft document of a proposed plan of action has emerged here, less hard-edged than Castro's call for taking economic pressure off poorer countries. A proposal that would urge the United Nations to take a greater role in distributing economic aid, lessening the role of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. (voice-over): Also under consideration in the draft document, calls for preferential trade for poor nations and suggestions to improve poorer countries' access to information and information technology like the Internet. Bill Delaney, CNN, Havana.
Fidel Castro Makes Remarks At Group Of 77 Summit