GLOBAL solidarity is crucial if poor countries want to lift themselves out of poverty, President Thabo told delegates at the first presidential gathering of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Cuba. He said developing nations had to ensure that international institutions of governance, such as the United Nations, were democratised. He also called for the elimination of Third World debt. At least 110 of the group’s 133 members are represented at the summit, which ends on Friday, including at least 50 heads of state or government, mostly from Africa. The countries represent 80 percent of the world’s population, most of whom are impoverished.