UN Urges Youth to Attain Millennium Development Goals

“Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on young people to hold political leaders to account for promoting development, an exhibition spotlighted the quest of youth for a better life and ceremonies were held around the world today as the United Nations system marked International Youth Day.

“I know you will not accept a world where others die of hunger, remain illiterate and lack human dignity,” Mr. Annan said in a message that stressed the importance of next month’s General Assembly summit of world leaders for reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of targets for curing a host of socio-economic ills by 2015.” [Read more]