Tomorrow’s United Nations summit on the Millennium Development Goals is a chance to make a difference to the poorest people in the world says Gordon Brown.
Speaking in an interview with the Guardian in advance of the UN meeting, the Prime Minister said that the involvement of powerful multinational companies like Vodaphone, Microsoft and Pepsico make it a “unique event”.
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Companies like these can offer telephone services, distribution networks and research knowledge to have a distinct role where “needs are met”, he added.
Mr Brown said that all governments have a contribution to make towards meeting the MGDs, and encouraged countries to show “the coordination of action that hasn’t been there in the past”.
“…if everyone works together for a common aim, we can actually achieve far more than if we work independently of each other.
“I mean, obviously, we’re dealing in some cases with corruption; in other cases we’re dealing with bad governments, and natural disasters that are affecting [a country's] ability to produce the food that’s needed, but I think if we could coordinate as a global summit, that could made a huge difference.”
We’ll be keeping our Flickr, Twitter and news items up to date with progress from the summit over the next couple of days. You can also follow Development Secretary Douglas Alexander on his New York blog:
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