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With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, UN Secretary-GeneralComing amid mixed progress and new crises that threaten the global effort to halve extreme poverty, “the summit will be a crucially important opportunity to redouble our efforts to meet the Goals,” he said, referring to the targets adopted at the UN Millennium Summit of 2000, aimed at slashing poverty, hunger, disease, maternal and child deaths and other ills by a 2015 deadline.
The high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly to review the implementation of the Goals will provide a unique opportunity to strengthen collective efforts and partnerships for the push to 2015.
For more information:
- Visit www.un.org/en/mdg/summit2010
- Read the Secretary-General's report in preparation for the September summit
