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Report on the UN Millennium Development Goals: we can eliminate world poverty by 2030
un article par UN News Centre (abridged)
The world has an historic opportunity to eradicate
extreme poverty and achieve sustainability and
equality for all through the new post-2015
development agenda, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
said today [30 May], launching a report that
outlines a new framework to build on the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) receives report of the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda from co-Chair President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia. UN Photo/Mark Garten
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“We are at the beginning of an historic journey,”
Mr. Ban told the General Assembly after receiving
the report, compiled by the High-Level Panel on
the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The report sets
out a roadmap to fill key gaps in the MDG process,
such as building institutions “that are honest,
accountable and responsive to people’s needs,” he
said. . .
Entitled A New Global Partnership: Eradicate
Poverty and Transform Economies through
Sustainable Development, the report sets out a
universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty by
2030 and deliver on the promise of sustainable
development. It also emphasizes that the new
development agenda must be universal – applying to
countries in the global North and South alike –
and be infused with a spirit of partnership.
The report was delivered to Mr. Ban earlier today
at a ceremony attended by Panel co-Chair President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia on behalf of
his fellow co-Chairs, President Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf of Liberia and Prime Minister David
Cameron of the United Kingdom. The UN chief
expressed his gratitude to the co-Chairs for their
leadership and to the Panel’s members for their
diligence and commitment.
In the report, the 27-member Panel calls for the
new post-2015 goals to drive five major
transformational shifts: move from “reducing” to
ending extreme poverty, leaving no one behind;
putting sustainable development at the core of the
development agenda; transforming economies to
drive inclusive growth; building accountable
institutions, open to all, that will ensure good
governance and peaceful societies; and forging a
new global partnership based on cooperation,
equity and human rights. . .
Vuk Jeremić, President of the General Assembly,
expressed the hope that the Panel’s
recommendations will serve as a wake-up call, “for
we are not doing enough to meet the fundamental
challenges of our time: to end extreme poverty in
this generation and significantly narrow the
global gap between rich and poor, without
inflicting irreparable damage to the environmental
basis for our survival.”
“I am truly convinced that we must act now to slow
the alarming pace of climate change, which poses
an unprecedented threat to humanity. And we must
act now to profoundly transform the ways our
economies work,” he continued, urging Member
States to formulate the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) in accordance with the criteria set
out in the Rio outcome, namely that they be
“action-oriented, concise and easy to communicate;
limited in number; aspirational; global in nature;
and universally applicable to all countries” . . .
[Note: Thank you to Janet Hudgins, the CPNN reporter
for this article.]
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