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Development for All: We Still Can

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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), adopted by all the world’s governments in 2000, became the highlight of the United Nations development agenda to build a more equitable, wealthier and more secure world for all. The chapter explores how UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used successfully his bully pulpit in 2007–2016 to spur the momentum and to bring Member States to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Taking initiative, Ban Ki-moon succeeded in laying foundations for an ambitious and transformative development agenda for the United Nations for 2015–2030.

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    SG/SM/14336-ENV/DEV/1286, Press Conference by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Rio+20 , 6 June 2012.

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    DSG/SM/361-DEV/2652-GA/10668, 6 December 2007; Press Conference by Non-Governmental Organizations on Rio+20 , 1 June 2012.

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    SG/SM/10843-ECOSOC/6247, 17 January 2007; DSG/SM/313-ECOSOC/6261, 2 April 2007; DSG/SM/361-DEV/2652-GA/10668, 6 December 2007.

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    ECOSOC/6275, 2 July 2007.

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    Press Conference by United Nations Secretary-General to launch Report of the MDG Gap Task Force, 4 September 2008. See also Delivering on the Global Partnership for Achieving the Millennium Development Goal, MDG Gap Task Force Report 2008 (New York: United Nations, 2008), accessed 19 June 2018, http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG%20Gap%20Task%20Force%20Report%202008.pdf.

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    DEV/2677, 11 September 2008.

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Jesenský, M. (2019). Development for All: We Still Can. In: The United Nations under Ban Ki-moon. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12220-1_2

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