Clock is Ticking
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by Dan Shepard, Information Officer, UN DPI

The big question today is when the Bali conference will finish. And how it will conclude. The negotiations went deep into the night, or morning, on Thursday, and few people actually expect things to wrap up before Saturday morning.

There's not too much news right now. There are new meetings of ministers, and then there smaller groups, "friends of the chair" groups and somehow this is supposed to sort itself out -- but by when? There are questions over how long the conference can actually continue, when ministers have booked flights home, and how long the conference facility will be available.

September 25, 2008


Halfway to the Millennium Development Goals
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The following appeared as an op-ed in The Guardian Online on Thursday, September 25th.

This week, over 150 world leaders are gathered at the UN for the opening of the general assembly. If recent years are any indication, news outlets will focus on the disagreements aired on Tuesday, when George Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the podium.

But the real drama occurs today (Thursday), when the same global leaders that butted heads earlier in the week take stock of one of the most far-reaching and noble statements of international cooperation ever agreed upon, the millennium development goals.

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