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STORY: BAN / GENERAL ASSEMBLY
TRT: 1.17
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 31 JULY 2012, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – UNTV – 2011, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
UNTV – 31 JULY 2012, NEW YORK
2. Wide shot, Secretary-General arriving to podium
3. Wide shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The panel will hold its first meeting at the end of September in the margins of the General Debate, and its findings will inform the report that I will prepare and submit to you next year.”
FILE – UNTV – 27 APRIL 2010, NEW YORK CITY
5. Wide shot, Queen Rania meeting with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
6. Various shots, Queen Rania greeting children
FILE – UNTV – 16 JUNE 2010, NEW YORK CITY
7. Med shot, Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mexico speaking to UN Security Council
FILE - WORLD BANK - 30 JUNE 2010, WASHINGTON DC
8. Wide shot, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala working at desk
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (31 July) announced the members of a high-level panel to advise on the global development agenda beyond 2015, the target date for achieving the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The 26-member panel will hold its first meeting at the end of September, in the margins of the annual high-level debate of the General Assembly. It is expected to submit its findings to the Secretary-General in the first half of 2013, and those findings will inform his report to Member States.
The eight MDGs, agreed on by world leaders at a UN summit in 2000, set specific targets on poverty alleviation, education, gender equality, child and maternal health, environmental stability, HIV/AIDS reduction, and a ‘Global Partnership for Development.’
According to a recent study – the 2012 Millennium Development Goals Report – progress has been made in some areas, with three important targets on poverty, slums and water met three years ahead of 2015. It added that meeting the remaining targets, while challenging, is possible – but only if Governments do not waiver from their commitments made over a decade ago.
The High-level Panel is part of Secretary-General Ban’s post-2015 initiative, mandated by the 2010 MDG Summit, at which UN Member States took stock of the progress made in achieving the MDGs.
The Panel’s work will be closely coordinated with that of the intergovernmental working group tasked to design Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as agreed at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June.
The panel members announced today include Queen Rania of Jordan, a UNICEF Goodwill ambassador; Mexican foreign minister Patricia Espinosa; and Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who is also a former managing director at the World Bank.
The following members were also announced today: Fulbert Gero Amoussouga of Benin, Vanessa Petrelli Corrêa of Brazil, Yingfan Wang of China, Maria Angela Holguin of Colombia, Jean-Michel Severino of France, Horst Kohler of Germany, Naoto Kan of Japan, Betty Maina of Kenya, Abhijit Banerjee of India, Andris Piebalgs of Latvia, , Paul Polman of the Netherlands, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria, Elvira Nabiullina of the Russian Federation, Graça Machel of South Africa, Sung-Hwan Kim of the Republic of Korea, Gunilla Carlsson of Sweden, Emilia Pires of Timor-Leste, Kadir Topbas of Turkey, John Podesta of the United States of America, Tawakel Karman of Yemen, and the Secretary-General’s Special Advisor on Post-2015 Development Planning, Amina J. Mohammed, who will serve in an ex officio capacity.
The High-level Panels’ three co-chairs, announced in May, are: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia; President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia; and Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom.
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