Luxembourg's development cooperation - Annual report 2013

On 20 September 2013, the Department for Development Cooperation invited interested NGOs to a meeting to prepare for the United Nations General Assembly’s Special Event towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals to be held on 25 September 2013 in New York. In the presence of representatives from the Ministry for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure and the Higher Council for Sustainable Development, the NGOs and the Department for Development Cooperation addressed the issue of poverty reduction as part of sustainable development, the principle of shared but differentiated responsibilities, the resources to be implemented and the monitoring of the process. Prior to the meeting, some NGOs had communicated their position to the Ministry and these position papers, along with the Communications by the European Union, the Council’s Conclusions on the post-2015 framework, the report from the High-level Panel and the draft final document to be adopted at the Special Event formed the basis of the discussions.