New York, Sep 20 2010 9:10AM
World leaders are converging on United Nations Headquarters in New York today for the start of a three-day summit to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (<"http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/">MDGs).
With just five years to go before the deadline for achieving the MDGs, the leaders will discuss how and where they can do more in the remaining period to defeat poverty, reduce hunger, stop environmental degradation, improve education, boost maternal and child health and reach the other remaining targets.
"Ten years have passed since the adoption of the Millennium Declaration and the historical commitment to cut extreme poverty by half through the implementation of eight measurable and time-bound goals: the Millennium Development Goals," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote in a <"http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/64/665">report earlier this year. "This vision and those measures remain relevant today."
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Sep 20 2010 9:10AM
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