After flying for 19 hours from Indonesia, the President who was accompanied by Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, arrived in Monrovia, Liberia, and directly held a bilateral meeting with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
The two leaders jointly chair the High Panel on the Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals together with British Prime Minister David Cameron.
The Panel was set up by the United Nations to collect inputs and recommendations for making development strategies especially after the completion of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) in 2015.
Following their bilateral meeting, the two leaders held a joint press conference. President Yudhoyono said he was proud for being the first Indonesian president to visit Liberia.
Yudhoyono invited the Liberian president to also visit Indonesia next March to discuss global development, particularly poverty elimination.
The High Panel on the Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals has 27 world leader members from government, business and civilian circles. They are among others Jordan Queen Rania, former German president Horay Kohler, Timor Leste`s Finance Minister Emilia Pirwa and South African activist Graham acwl.
The two meeting in Monrovia was the third of its kind after the ones in New York and London. The fourth meeting will be held in Bali, in March 2013 where the panel will deliver recommendations on the future global development.
The final report would be handed over to the UN Secretary General in May 2013.
(A014)
Editor: Suryanto
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