“South-South cooperation offers real, concrete solutions to common development challenges,” Ban Ki-moon said in his message to mark the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation Thursday, Xinhua reported.“Sharing best practices, funding pilot projects in far-flung locales, providing the capital to scale-up successful projects, supplying regional public goods, developing and adapting appropriate technologies — these are the opportunities that the international community needs to better leverage,” he said.The UN chief pointed out that South-South cooperation was particularly important as the world approached the 2015 deadline of the eight anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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