The UN secretary general representative in the Great Lakes region, Ibrahima Fall, called on the international community to create `a second Marshall Plan` to salvage countries of the region. Speaking at the opening of the 3rd inter-ministerial regional committee meeting of the Great Lakes region, Fall said his appeal was based on the need to "help countries of the region rediscover the path to stability and development". The four-day meeting, convening at the Central African National Assembly, should offer delegates from the region`s 11 member countries the opportunity to endorse several documents, including 31 projects and 9 protocols to the regional convention on security, stability and development, for adoption by the second summit of the heads of State, slated in June/July 2006.