Archive for November 2018
H.E. Ms. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
Co-Chair Ms. Sirleaf is the first elected female head of state in Africa and has been in office since 16 January 2006. She won a second term in 2011. President Sirleaf was jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize with Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakel Karman of Yemen (also on the High Level Panel).…
Read MoreH.E. Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia
Co-Chair Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is the sixth President of the Republic of Indonesia, and also the country’s first directly elected President. President Yudhoyono has assumed a number of self-transformation: from student to soldier, soldier to reformist general, four-star general to Cabinet Minister, Minister to Politician, and politician to President. President Yudhoyono has an extensive…
Read MoreBriefing of the President of Indonesia to the General Assembly
BRIEFING BY H.E. DR. SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON THE REPORT OF THE UN HIGH-LEVEL PANEL OF EMINENT PERSONS ON THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA 30 MAY 2013 Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you for the invitation to brief…
Read MoreHigh Level Panel Releases Recommendations For World’s Next Development Agenda
Eminent Persons from Around the World Call for a New Global Partnership to Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development 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…
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