Above: Jose Miguel Insulza and Ban Ki-Moon in New York (OAS Photo)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza met Monday with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in New York.

Insulza is in New York this week to participate in a debate on inequality at UN Headquarters organized by UN General Assembly President Vuk Jeremic.

The two sides discussed the “current global political context, with particular attention to recent events in the Americas,” according to an OAS statement.

On the issue of inequality, Insulza said this week that, while poverty had been reduced substantially in the region in recent years, “this important achievement has been accompanied by only a very marginal reduction in the gap between the lowest and highest incomes in society.”

“Although poverty has dropped to 30% of the population of Latin America, that figure is still high for a region with our level of development,” he said.