President commends post-2015 agenda progress as General Assembly concludes 68th session

Closing the current session in the newly-renovated General Assembly Hall, President John Ashe today expressed gratitude to Member States for their cooperation in focusing on perhaps the biggest generational challenge of the United Nations: crafting an inclusive, participatory, people centred post-2015 development agenda.

“These are indeed troubling times and they require resourceful, dedicated and focused responses. I am therefore grateful for your cooperation…in helping me to ‘set the stage’ for this collective endeavour,” Mr. Ashe said in his closing address to the 193-member body.

The UN post-2015 development agenda, which will succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015, has the “eradication of extreme poverty as its overarching objective,” Mr. Ashe said.

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