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Bali UN Panel sets ‘ambitious yet achievable’ framework

Meet the press: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (center) speaks at a press conference at the UN High Level Panel Meeting on the Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Wednesday, while Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (left) and UK Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening look on. (AP/Firdia Lisnawati)Ina Parlina and Novia D. Rulistia, The Jakarta Post, Nusa Dua | Headlines | Thu, March 28 2013, 9:34

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Meet the press: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (center) speaks at a press conference at the UN High Level Panel Meeting on the Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Wednesday, while Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (left) and UK Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening look on. (AP/Firdia Lisnawati)

Bali talks on the global agenda beyond 2015 concluded with an “ambitious yet achievable” framework ready to be submitted to the UN secretary-general in May.

The co-chairs of the fourth High Level Panel Meeting on Post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) stated the panel agreed to renew a global partnership “that enabled a transformative, people-centered and planet-sensitive development agenda that was realized through the equal partnership of all stakeholders.”

The co-chairs — President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and UK Prime Minister David Cameron — agreed that financing for the development agenda would be clearly specified.

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