General Assembly Holds High-level Event on Post- 2015 Development Agenda

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) opens today's High-level Stocktaking Event on the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Contributions to the Secretary-General's Synthesis Report. In his comments, Mr. Ban declared: ""We must build a framework that will sustain and finish what we have accomplished with the MDGs in our fight against poverty, hunger, ignorance and disease. We must rise to challenges old and new, not least climate change."" John W. Ashe (right), President of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly, also provided opening remarks.