The High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons working on the post-2015 development agenda concluded a two-day meeting at United Nations Headquarters, New York, on May 14 - the final opportunity for the 27-member Panel to discuss pending issues before the report can be finalized and submitted to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on May 30, 2013.
According to a dispatch from New York, the meeting, under the guidance of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom, and the envoy of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia - the three Co-Chairs - reached agreement on the most challenging and contentious outstanding issues.
Summing up the session, President Sirleaf called it a very productive meeting, saying, "We managed to agree on some difficult issues, like how to tackle peace and conflict, to foster good governance and to ensure that this is a truly universal agenda - one with responsibilities for all countries."
The Panel will finalize its report and present it to the Secretary-General in two weeks. Secretary-General Ban visited the Panel on Wednesday, in the midst of the negotiations. He witnessed firsthand the deliberations, and heard the thinking behind some of the Panel's most difficult decisions.
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