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Saturday 26 Sep 2015 - 14:56 Makkah mean time-13-12-1436
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New York, (IINA) - World leaders pledged on Friday to end extreme poverty within the next 15 years, adopting an ambitious set of UN goals to be backed up by trillions of dollars in development spending, AFP reported.
Ending poverty was at the top of the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the 169 targets that were adopted at the start of a summit that capped three years of tough negotiations.
SDGs will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that expire this year and they will apply to both developing and developed countries.
The new UN agenda aims to end poverty, ensure healthy lives, promote education and combat climate change, at a cost of between $3.5 and $5 trillion per year until 2030.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the plan as a "to-do list for people and planet" that laid out a "universal, integrated and transformative vision for a better world".
Addrssing the world leaders, Ki-moon said that "the true test of commitment to agenda 2030 will be implementation, we need action from everyone, everywhere".
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