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Stronger Development Partnership, Better Market Access, Improved Governance Seen as Vital for Developing Countries to Achieve Millennium Development Goals

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As the General Assembly gathered for the second day of its high-level review of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, presidents, ministers and other officials urged that concrete measures be devised to assist those countries that had fallen behind in the fight against extreme deprivation.

‘We Have Tried to Climb Mountain of Comprehensive Settlement Before, but Have Fallen Short; This Time, We Must Go All the Way,’ Secretary-General Says

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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee Meeting, as delivered by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, in New York, 21 September:

Secretary-General, Opening Private Sector Forum, Urges Business to Recognize That Investment in Millennium Development Goals Is ‘Win-Win Proposition’

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Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks at the Private Sector Forum on the Millennium Development Goals, in New York, today, 22 September:

Secretary-General Expresses Determination at United Nations Development Programme Event for UN System to Remain at Forefront of Effort to Achieve Development Goals

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Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the Millennium Development Goals Summit side event organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), “Turning evidence into practice: Learning from what works to accelerate MDG progress”, in New York, today, 22 September:

Secretary-General Hails ‘Virtuous Cycle’ as Fight against Malaria Leads to Sharp Decline in Deaths from All Causes

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Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, delivered by his Special Envoy on Malaria, Ray Chambers, to the “Bridging the Malaria Gap: Saving Children — Supporting Women” event of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance, in New York today, 22 September:

Global Strategy launched by United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit Draws More than $40 Billion to Save Lives of 16 Million Women and Children

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Crowning the international summit on the Millennium Development Goals, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Heads of State and Government, along with the private sector, foundations, international organizations, civil society and research organizations, kicked off a concerted worldwide effort to save the lives of more than 16 million women and children.

Secretary-General, at Private Sector Forum, Challenges Participants to Bring Solutions, Innovations to Scale to Reach Millennium Development Goals

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson, President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal and Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen were among hundreds of high officials from corporations, Governments and world organizations at the United Nations Leadership Forum who today stressed the critical role of the private sector in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.