The aim to approve a new global development plan this year was ambitious, he said, but progress had already been made. ‘We have brought an unprecedented range of views into our preparations for the post-2015 agenda.’

New goals are being developed to set specific targets in areas such as poverty reduction and education, and Eliasson stressed the importance of building a stronger UN development system to deliver these.

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