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The outgoing president of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) said that “two years after the momentous adoption of the 2030 agenda, implementation is not yet moving at the speed or scale required to meet our ambitious goals.” UNIFEED

Secretary-General António Guterres said the UN development system “is not functioning at its full potential” and should be adapted to the requirements of the 2030 Agenda, which “points the way and has to be given life as the defining agenda of our time.” UNIFEED

At a high level meeting today to discuss the “Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development”, Juan Elias Chebly, Founder and CEO of Voipebox.com said, “Unfortunately, what we see in the world today is a culture of waste that moves to the beat of quarterly financial statements of corporations. We really have to change that paradigm”.   UNIFEED-UNTV  

The Head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), José Graziano da Silva, today said “you don’t have peace if you don’t have food security, but you also don’t have food security if you don’t have peace.” UNIFEED-UNTV / IFAD

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the world is “united in our goal of eradicating absolute poverty by 2030” a goal which she said “it is clear that we can in fact manage to achieve.” UNIFEED-UNTV

UN Secretary-General  at the ministerial meeting of the Group of 77 and China commended the G-77 and China for playing an extremely important role in shaping the new development agenda, adding that now is the time to build awareness and commitment to the agenda at the national-level.  UNIFEED-UNTV

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) achieved significant progress over the past 15 years, but persistent gaps in official development assistance and insufficient access to markets, affordable medicines and new technologies have highlighted the need for a rejuvenation of the global partnership for development, according to a new United Nations report . UNIFEED-UNTV

Data from UNICEF’s “A Promise Renewed: 2015 Progress Report” show that since 2000, when governments committed to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the lives of 48 million children under the age of five have been saved.  UNICEF

Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) president Saber Chowdhury Friday told reporters in New York “if you really want to see success on the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) –as we all desperately want to- I think the role of Parliamentarians is going to be of critical importance.” UNIFEED-UNTV

At a press encounter for the launch of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Assessment Report, the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Wu Hongbo said “the unfinished business of the MDG programme will form a foundation of one of the pillars for the future sustainable development agenda.” UNIFEED-UNTV