The High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda today released “A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development,” a report which sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty from the face of the earth by 2030, and deliver on the promise of sustainable development.

I thank you for the invitation to brief the General Assembly on the Report of the UN High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

On May 30 at 3:00 pm EDT the report of the High Level Panel (HLP) on the post-2015 development agenda will be available to stakeholders. A number of UN agencies and stakeholder groups have come together to organize a discussion of the report taking advantage of the Panel’s presence in New York at this time.

Today the U.N. Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda concluded its three day meeting at the United Nations in New York.

On 25-27 March, members of the High Level Panel met in Bali, Indonesia to discuss global partnerships and the means of implementation for the world’s next development agenda.

On February 14, the Permanent Representatives of Indonesia and Liberia, U.K. Special Envoy for UN Development Goals Michael Anderson and High Level Panelists Fulbert Gero Amoussouga, Patricia Espinosa and Amina Mohammed briefed the General Assembly on the Panel's recent meeting in Monrovia.

The United Nations has teamed up with youth groups, private sector bodies and NGO partners all over the world to launch MY World, which is the United Nations Survey for a Better World. MY World asks citizens everywhere about the issues that make the most difference to their lives.

On January 30-31, Panelists met in Monrovia, Liberia, where they discussed national building blocks required for sustained prosperity.