UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK, — Heads of State, joined by leaders from civil society organizations, foundations and the private sector, will meet at the United Nations from 20 to 22 September to spur collective action against extreme poverty, hunger and disease.
The United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) — officially a High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly — will bring together world leaders to commit to an action agenda to achieve the eight anti-poverty goals by their 2015 target date. Almost 150 Heads of State and Government are expected to attend the Summit, convened by the UN General Assembly and chaired by the Assembly’s incoming and outgoing presidents, H.E. Joseph Deiss (Switzerland) and H.E. Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki (Libya), just prior to its annual high-level debate.
Ten years after world leaders committed to the Goals laid out in the Millennium Declaration – and with only five years left until the 2015 target date for achieving the Goals — the Summit comes at a crucial time to galvanize commitments and accelerate progress. “We must not fail the billions who look to the international community to fulfil the promise of the Millennium Declaration for a better world,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his report, Keeping the Promise, issued earlier this year as a basis for the intergovernmental negotiations on the Summit outcome document. “Our world possesses the knowledge and the resources to achieve the MDGs,” Mr. Ban said. Falling short of the Goals “would be an unacceptable failure, moral and practical.”
For more information on the Summit and a complete list of partnership events, please visit: www.un.org/en/mdg/summit2010.
For more information on the Millennium Development Goals, please see: www.un.org/millenniumgoals.
For a live webcast of the Summit and related press conferences, please see www.un.org/webcast.
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