NewsNetworkToday: UNITED NATIONS S-G BAN KI-MOON: TOP PRIORITIES FOR 2010 (UNTV)

NewsNetworkToday: 12 January 2010: - UNTV: United Nations - Among Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's top priorities for this year will be promoting sustainable development and negotiating a legally binding pact on climate change.

Heralding 2010 as the year of development, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today underscored the urgent need to ensure that action is accelerated to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the eight anti-poverty targets with a 2015 deadline.

I ask that we join together to make 2010 a year of sustainable development, to meet the MDGs, address climate change, promote global health and take the necessary steps for lasting and robust economic recovery.

With only six years remaining until the MDGs deadline, the Secretary-General exhorted nations, in an address to the General Assembly today, to kick off 2010 with a decisive push.

Ban also underscored the importance that laid in preventing and resolving deadly conflicts around the world.

He said that, as ever, our goal is building a safer and more secure world. This means continuing to sharpen our tools for responding to crises.

The other priorities he listed today were: stepping up efforts to achieve a nuclear-free world; bolstering human rights and the rule of law; and strengthening the UN system.

Following the meeting Ban Ki-moon met journalists outside the conference room where he reiterated his hope for renewed efforts to solve the Korean Peninsula denuclearization issue.

Commenting on the situation in the Middle East and the Israeli and Palestine talks Ban said that there was need to see some progress in United States initiative to talk to the parties, and added that he has been urging all the leaders particularly leaders of Israel and Palestine to come back to negotiation table.

Asked about the selection of a new head of mission for Afghanistan, Ban said that it was too early to tell but that he had been discussing that matter with President Hamid Karzai and all other concerned major parties. ................................................................................­... ( UNITED NATIONS TELIVISION: UNTV ) ................................................................................­..............................................NewsNetworkToday:
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