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Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message for World Habitat Day, the theme of which is “Changing cities, building opportunities”, observed on 1 October:
Amid warnings by a new United Nations report that significant development gains worldwide risked backsliding due to the slowdown in providing aid, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called today for a stronger global partnership to advance progress towards poverty eradication, sustainable growth and other development targets that world leaders had pledged to achieve by 2015.