Press Release: Commissioner Piebalgs in the UN Development Cooperation Forum: turning the Millennium Development Goals into Millennium Development Achievements

On 29 June 2010 European Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, is a main speaker at a UN conference on the Millennium Development Goals, which will pave the way to the UN High Level Summit on MDGs due to take place in September 2010. At the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Development Cooperation Forum, Commissioner Piebalgs will deliver a key note speech on Europe's position on the way forward to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). He will also hold a bilateral meeting with Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and participate to a debate on European Development policy at the City University of New York.