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MEXICO CITY, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto Tuesday opened the first High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership1 for Effective Development Cooperation, attended by some 1,500 international leaders, including United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
At the opening of the two-day event in Mexico City, Pena Nieto said, "Mexico, as host country of this first meeting, seeks to promote dialogue and the building of accords between different government and non-governmental agencies to strengthen and promote efficient cooperation for development."
Ban also addressed the
gathering2, urging the international community to earmark more national resources and financing to cut poverty and reach the UN-sponsored
Millennium3 Development Goals ( MDGs) by the preset deadline, 2015.
"It is necessary to mobilize resources from all sources: national, international, private and public, to more effectively reduce poverty and reach the Millennium Development Goals," said Ban.
"Critically, we must ensure the financing to match our ambitions," he added.
The UN describes the goals, adopted in 2000 by the leaders of 189 nations attending the Millennium Summit in New York, as "the world's
blueprint4 for tackling poverty, hunger and disease, expanding education and opportunity, and providing a cleaner, greener future."
Concretely, the goals call for
eradicating5 extreme poverty and hunger, providing free primary education to all, promoting
gender6 equality, reducing infant mortality, improving
maternal7 health and creating a global partnership for development.
"As the 2015 deadline draws near, all of us must do more to deliver on our commitments," Ban said.
Ban also
noted8 that South-South cooperation has led to impressive growth.
The meeting brought together heads of state and government, ministers, legislators and representatives of the business
sector9 and civil society.
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