U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Delivers Remarks After Launching the Mdg Africa Steering Group

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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Delivers Remarks After Launching the Mdg Africa Steering Group

SECRETARY GENERAL BAN DELIVERS REMARKS AFTER LAUNCHING THE MDG AFRICA STEERING GROUP, NEW YORK CITY, AS RELEASED BY THE U.N.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

SPEAKERS: U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI-MOON

WORLD BANK PRESIDENT ROBERT ZOELLICK

AFRICAN UNION COMMISSIONER FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS MAXWELL MKWEZALAMBA EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER FOR DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN AID LOUIS MICHEL

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR MURILO PORTUGAL

[*] BAN: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure to meet with you, with my distinguished colleagues of the members of the MDG African Steering Group.

This morning we had a very good meeting, and I have just concluded the inaugural MDG Africa Steering Group.

It was an unprecedented meeting, in terms of demonstrating and reconfirming our strong commitment to fully realize the targets of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

I am grateful for the participation of all the distinguished participants from the World Bank, the IMF, the African Union, the European Commission and the African Development Bank and the Islamic Development Banks.

Those two Presidents have joined through video links [[Mr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank, and Mr. Ahmad Mohamed Ali Al-Madani, President of the Islamic Development Bank.]

The Deputy Secretary-General [Asha Rose Migiro] and Kemal Dervis, the ...

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