Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development

Follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development and the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (E/CN.5/2015/2) [item 3]
Commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the World Summit for Social Development

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Side Events
• Video Length: 03:02:31
• Production Date: 5 February 2015
• Asset Language: Arabic; Chinese; English; French; Russian; Spanish
• Personal Subject: BAN KI-MOON
• Subject Topical: POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
• MAMS Id: 1294884
• Parent Id: 1294639

Description

Twenty years after leaders from 117 countries met in Copenhagen at the World Summit on Social Development, progress on eliminating poverty, job creation and social integration have advanced unevenly, according to officials attending a review of implementation efforts since the Summit.

The review has taken on greater importance as the world is preparing to adopt a new global sustainable development agenda at the Sustainable Development Summit this September, and to reach an agreement to address climate change in December.

Remarks by the Secretary-General

Keynote address
Juan Somavía, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Interregional Policy Cooperation (via video-link)

Statements of reflection
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Denis G. Antoine (Grenada), Acting President of the General Assembly
Oh Joon (Republic of Korea), Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council
Ib Petersen, Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations

Interactive dialogue on “Social development: From Copenhagen to the Post-2015 Development Agenda”