SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION ESSENTIAL TO ACCELERATE ACHIEVEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT GOALS -- UN CHIEF

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SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION ESSENTIAL TO ACCELERATE ACHIEVEMENT OF
DEVELOPMENT GOALS -- UN CHIEFNew York, Sep 12 2013 10:00AMCooperation
among developing countries plays an essential role in advancing
development worldwide, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today,
calling for increased efforts to boost wealth and knowledge in the
global South.

"South-South cooperation offers real, concrete solutions to common
development challenges," Mr. Ban said in his message to mark the
United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation. "Sharing best
practices, funding pilot projects in far-flung locales, providing the
capital to scale-up successful projects, supplying regional public
goods, developing and adapting appropriate technologies —these are the
opportunities that the international community needs to better
leverage."

Mr. Ban said South-South cooperation was particularly important as the
world approached the 2015 deadline of the eight anti-poverty targets
known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Agreed upon by world
leaders at a UN summit in 2000, the MDGs set specific targets on
poverty alleviation, education, gender equality, child and maternal
health, environmental stability, HIV/AIDS and malaria reduction, and a
global partnership for development.

"In many developing countries incomes are up, poverty is declining and
hope is rising," he said in his remarks delivered by the Associate
Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), Rebecca
Grynspan.

Mr. Ban pointed out significant progress such as the achievement of
the goal to cut extreme poverty by half, increasing access to
education for girls and boys, and significantly reducing infant
mortality. More than 2 billion people also gained access to drinking
water.

"These and other economic achievements of the global South have given
rise to a rapidly expanding middle class adding a strong voice to
demands for more liberties, equity, decent jobs and a wide range of
goods and services that are critical to genuine human progress," he
said.

In spite of positive trends, Mr. Ban noted that there are still 1.2
billion people living in conditions of extreme poverty, and stressed
the importance of defining a post-2015 agenda that will galvanize
development efforts in the years and decades ahead.

"As that agenda takes shape, the international community is already
united around the idea that South-South cooperation should remain an
integral part of the global partnership for development," he said.
"Developing countries are turning to each other for lessons on
innovative policies and schemes to address pressing development
challenges."

He pointed to examples of cooperation between Brazil and Africa, as
well as India and China, which have helped tackle issues such as
childhood nutrition, agriculture, and the development of new
infrastructure.

"More solutions are available across the global South which, if
adequately harnessed, could make meaningful contributions across a
range of urgent concerns, from hunger and health to education and
sustainable energy," Mr. Ban said, and called on partners to "redouble
their efforts to harness the wealth of knowledge, expertise and
development thinking in the Global South."

In December 2011, the General Assembly, decided that, beginning in
2012, the observance of the UN Day for South-South Cooperation would
be changed from 19 December to 12 September, to mark the day in 1978
when the UN Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing
Countries adopted the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and
Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries.Sep 12
2013 10:00AM
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