65/1 GA
Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
65
Session
| Draft symbol | A/65/L.1 |
|---|---|
| Adopted symbol | 65/1 |
| Sponsors (1) | |
| UN Document | 65/1 ↗ |
Denmark
Vote Consensus — A/65/PV.9
Speeches following this vote (17)
The Secretary-General
My congratulations go to you all. This summit has laid a solid foundation for the progress we need in our quest to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the internationally agreed deadline of 2015. Through the participation of a large number of heads of State or Government and leaders from civil society, the private sector and the philanthropic community, this event has galvanized wo…
Mr. Boucher
With five years to go, with famine and poverty still rampant, we face a defining moment for development. Can we learn from the past, from both our successes and our failures, and improve on our historic commitment to achieve substantial progress by 2015?
Over the past decade, hundreds of millions of people have emerged from poverty to build new lives based on their own energy and enterprise. But…
Mr. Swing
When the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were conceived 10 years ago, there was no mention of migration. And I think that this in itself tells a story, because at that point migration was not yet on the global scene. In fact, there were only 150 million migrants at that time.
Today, at the 10-year mark, there are more people on the move than at any other time in recorded history: 214 million…
Mr. Gelete
In the interest of time I will be reading only a few paragraphs of my presentation, and the full text will be circulated tomorrow.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and its 186 member national societies are fully committed to contribute effectively towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The International Federation, its member national soc…
Ms. El Moutawakel
On behalf of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), I thank the General Assembly and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for giving the IOC the opportunity to contribute more effectively, through sports, to the important work of the United Nations as a Permanent Observer. The Assembly’s decision to grant observer status to our organization was a resounding acknowledgement by Member States and the i…
Mr. Helgesen
The Millennium Declaration (resolution 55/2) affirms that the United Nations will spare no effort to promote democracy. For the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance International (IDEA), as the only intergovernmental organization with a specific mandate to support democracy worldwide, it is significant that this world body draws the link between democracy and development…
Mr. Benessahraoui
Since September 2000, the International Organization of la Francophonie (OIF) has made the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the guiding principle of the actions of all its missions. Since then it has contributed, to the extent that its means allow, to achieving the Goals with an approach that provides added value and effective solidarity. That approach is based on assisting member countries, i…
Ms. Marton-Lefèvre
I have the privilege of representing the world’s oldest and largest international conservation network, and speak on behalf of its 1,200 members — big and small, sovereign States and nongovernmental organizations — which are all united by a common vision of a just world that values and conserves nature.
At the turn of the millennium, world leaders made an unprecedented commitment to ensuring
en…
Mr. Kuroda
The Asian and Pacific region encompasses nearly threefifths of humankind. No global effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will succeed unless our region succeeds.
With more than 500 million people having overcome poverty since 1990, the region’s target for reducing extreme income poverty is in sight. However, as home to two-thirds of the world’s poor, it still faces
enormous…
Mr. Shafer
The Sovereign Hospitaller Military Order of Malta appreciates the opportunity to address this High-level Plenary Meeting, and I shall be very brief. The Order would also like to congratulate the Secretary-General and the President of the General Assembly on their wise guidance in organizing this important high-level event and for bringing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) directly into the …
Mr. Rao
Thank you very much, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to make a few comments on behalf of the Partners in Population and Development (PPD) at this landmark High-level Plenary Meeting. Because of time constraints, I will not read out the whole of my prepared statement.
As an intergovernmental organization of 24 developing countries committed to the promotion of South-South cooperation in the fi…
Mr. Amoruso
It is with great pride that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) participates today in the High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), exercising for the first time its observer status, which it
obtained last December at the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly. Established in 2006 after some 20 years of collaboration among the countries border…
Mr. Smith
The Commonwealth is honoured to make a statement at this High-level United Nations General Assembly Meeting to review the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 54 countries on five continents. We account for a third of the world’s population, a quarter of its countries and a fifth of its trade. We are rich and poor, large and small — diverse countrie…
Mr. Mchumo
It is a great honour for the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), and for myself, to address this meeting to present the perspective of the Common Fund with regard to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
By its very creation, the core business of the Common Fund for Commodities is essentially to combat poverty in developing countries by ensuring greater productivity, increas…
Mrs. Gates
I am honoured to join the Assembly at the conclusion of this critical dialogue among world leaders about
what I believe is one of the most urgent challenges facing the world today: how to accelerate the progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Over the past week I have heard some people say we will never meet the MDGs. Sometimes, our impatience with the way the world is leads us…
Mr. Gupta
As Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), it gives me great pleasure to speak on behalf of the global business community and the International Chamber.
When I spoke five years ago in the General Assembly (see A/60/PV.3), the role of business in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was just emerging. Now we have many successes. For example, we stand here today knowing that we…
Ms. Zhou Lu
The co-founder of the London School of Economics, George Bernard Shaw, once said that progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. We are here today. That is the best proof of progress that reflects far more change than just the change of minds.
Not so long ago, the prevalent notion of business was that the only social responsibility of b…
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