Shimon Peres to Speak for Israel at UN
The Jerusalem Post reports:
President Shimon Peres left for New York on Saturday night to represent Israel at the summit meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, convened by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to accelerate progress toward achieving the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, the deadline for which is 2015.
The summit meeting, to which leaders of all UN member states have been invited, will take place in New York from September 20-22.
The major goal of the summit meeting is to find a more rapid means of significantly reducing poverty, hunger, disease and childbirth fatalities.
While in New York, Peres, together with other world leaders, will also participate in the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.
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