I have to emphasize here that these illustrative goals are not meant to dictate what will be the definitive development goals."New York (ANTARA News) - The UN High-Level Panel (HLP) of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda has outlined 12 illustrative goals in its report entitled "A New Global Partner-ship: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development."
The 12 goals include ending poverty; empowering girls and women, and achieving gender equality; providing quality education and lifelong learning; and ensuring healthy lives, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said when giving a briefing on the Panel`s report to the UN General Assembly here on Thursday.
The other goals are ensuring food security and good nutrition; achieving universal access to water and sanitation; securing sustainable energy; creating jobs, sustainable livelihoods, and equitable growth; managing natural resource assets sustainably; ensuring good governance and effective institutions; ensuring stable and peaceful societies; and creating a global enabling environ-ment and catalyzing long-term finance.
"I have to emphasize here that these illustrative goals are not meant to dictate what will be the definitive development goals. It is crystal clear that the definitive development goals are at the hand of Member States during the inter-governmental process," he added.
President Yudhoyono, who was speaking on behalf of the Panel`s members and the two other co-chairs, stated poverty in all of its manifestations must be addressed to cut the vicious circle of poverty.
"Also critical to our efforts to alleviate poverty is a renewed global partnership. A genuine global partnership requires all stakeholders - be it government, private sector, civil society, scholar and international organizations - to have a sense of common purpose and to act in the common interest," he said.
The international community has done a lot in lifting many people out of poverty, but one billion people still live on 1.25 dollars a day or less.
According to the Indonesian head of state, many people, particularly women, are also still lacking access to nutritious food, quality healthcare and education, as well as basic infrastructure such as fresh water and sanitation.
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, in 2011 named President Yudhoyono, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, and British Prime Minister David Cameron to co-chair the 27-member High-Level Panel, to give proposals on the continuation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which will expire in 2015.
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