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Monday 28 September 2015

Obama makes forceful defense of new development goals

the years” if countries had added those efforts must on Syria on the U.N. side-
spent more time, money be matched by diploma- lines.Obama meets Mon-
and effort on caring for cy.The leaders of Britain, day with Russian President
their own people. France, Japan and Turkey Vladimir Putin, who hasn’t
“Development is threat- also were addressing the shown up to the U.N. meet-
ened by war,” Obama said, final day of the develop- ing for a decade.
and war often arises from ment summit. On Monday, Earlier Sunday, French Pres-
bad governance. Address- the annual General Assem- ident Francois Hollande an-
ing the world’s greatest bly high-level debate gives nounced his country’s first
refugee crisis since World countries a chance to lay airstrikes in Syria, raising the
War II as millions flee con- out their broader vision be- stakes in a region where a
flict in Syria and elsewhere, fore the world. U.S.-led coalition nervously
he said countries “that World leaders have already watches a new Russian
can, must do more to ac- begun a whirlwind series military buildup near Syria’s
commodate refugees” but of closed-door meetings Mediterranean coast.q

President Barack Obama speaks at the United Nations Sustain-
able Development Summit, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015, at the United
Nations headquarters. The global meeting is focused on fixing
some of the world’s greatest problems through a 15-year road
map.

(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

CARA ANNA Kerry put it after a meeting
Associated Press on the sidelines Sunday, “It
UNITEDNATIONS(AP)—Pres- would be a complete un-
ident Barack Obama on derstatement to say that
Sunday committed the we meet at a challenging
U.S. to a new blueprint to time.”
eliminate poverty and hun- Obama offered a powerful
ger around the world, tell- defense of a 15-year devel-
ing a global summit that opment agenda and will
a sweeping new develop- require trillions of dollars of
ment agenda is “not char- effort from countries, com-
ity but instead is one of the panies and civil society.
smartest investments we He told delegates that 800
can make in our own fu- million men, women and
ture.” children scrape by on less
It was the first of two ad- than $1.25 a day and that
dresses Obama is making billions of people are at
at the United Nations. His risk of dying from prevent-
second on Monday morn- able diseases. He called
ing, to the annual U.N. it a “moral outrage” that
General Assembly of world many children are just one
leaders, will be a broader mosquito bite away from
examination of world is- death.
sues, especially the ever- And, with a possible nod
more complicated conflict toward his address on Mon-
in Syria and the related ref- day, he noted that “mili-
ugee crisis. tary interventions might
As Secretary of State John have been avoided over