With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to attend a summit in New York on 20-22 September to accelerate progress towards the MDGs. The targets aimed at slashing poverty, hunger, disease, maternal and child deaths and other ills were adopted at the UN Millennium Summit of 2000.
President Obama is in attendance, and in spite of some of the troubles facing the UN, the mood is favorable for an American president who has restored U.S. funding to the United Nations, ended a U.S. boycott of the U.N. Human Rights Council, and reinvigorated U.N. nuclear disarmament efforts.
See the U.N.'s
MDG website and report.
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