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| General Assembly President Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, in her closing statement to the sixty-first session, told Member States that "when we are united in partnership and overcome mistrust, we can achieve much more for each other", noting that the adoption of the long-awaited resolution on strengthening the UN Economic and Social Council was a good example. She also pointed out other successes, including the adoption of two important international Conventions: on protecting the rights of persons with disabilities, and the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance. The Millennium Development Goals also figured prominently, and at a high-level meeting former Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that prospects for achieving the MDGs were "mixed at best", stating further that it was "not too late to turn the situation around". He called on both donors and developing countries alike to make good on a promise that world leaders had made at the 2000 Millennium Summit, where... |
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