CLIMATE CHANGE THE FOCUS OF SECRETARY-GENERAL'S TRIP TO WASHINGTON

CLIMATE CHANGE THE FOCUS OF SECRETARY-GENERAL'S TRIP TO WASHINGTON
New York, Oct 10 2007 5:00PM
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will head tomorrow to Washington for meetings that will focus on the perils of climate change and the importance of achieving the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (<"http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/">MDGs).

United Nations spokesperson Michele Montas told reporters that the Secretary-General will meet with chief executive officers at the United States Chamber of Commerce to discuss climate change issues.

The same subject will be on the agenda when Mr. Ban gives the keynote address later tomorrow to an event organized by the National Association of Evangelicals.

He is also expected to discuss the need to meet the MDGs, which world leaders agreed at a UN summit in 2000 to strive to achieve by 2015.

Ms. Montas said that on Friday the Secretary-General will meet with members of the US Peace Corps before returning to UN Headquarters in New York.
2007-10-10 00:00:00.000

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