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Secretary-General, Opening World Conference on Financing for Development, Voices Hope for ‘New Era of Cooperation and Global Partnership’

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ADDIS ABABA, 13 July — Opening the Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this morning, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the senior national and international officials assembled to together forge a framework for a “sustainable world free of poverty”.