Poverty + Development

PM Modi expected to address UN sustainable development summit

The new agenda builds on the success of the Millennium Development Goals, which helped more than 700 million people escape poverty.

From NDTV.

UNITED NATIONS:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to address a high-level summit on sustainable development hosted by the UN on September 25 when the new and ambitious post-2015 development agenda will be adopted.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to address the UNGA on September 30, according to the UN provisional list.

The United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda will be held from September 25 to 27 in United Nations and will be convened as a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly.

Slated to be one of the largest ever gatherings at the UN, more than 150 world leaders are expected to attend the Sustainable Development Summit to formally adopt the outcome document of the new agenda.

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Photo: Prime Minister of India Addresses General Assembly, 2014. UN Photo/Cia Pak.

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