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UN sets bar high to tackle world poverty
Leaders agree to ambitious development goals
by Our Foreign Desk
WORLD leaders unanimously backed an ambitious set of development goals yesterday that call for the eradication of extreme poverty and tackling climate change.
Leaders and diplomats from the 193 members of the United Nations applauded as general assembly president Mogens Lykketoft gavelled approval for the proposals.
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