Dhaka to project poverty cut successes at UN meet

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Bangladesh and Cambodia have been selected as models for the success of poverty alleviation policies of the Economics and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN), a statement said Friday.
The ECOSOC has chosen the two countries to present their success stories in a ministerial conference in Geneva on July 2 to July 5, reports bdnews24.com.
Foreign adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury will lead the Bangladesh delegation to the ECOSOC conference. The delegation will leave Dhaka for Geneva Saturday on a five-day trip.
"We will place a report at the conference on how we moved to achieve the first of the Millennium Development Goals through political stability, social awareness and sound policies," Chowdhury told reporters Friday.
Of the eight UN-set goals, the first one is to half the poverty and starvation rate by 2015.
In line with the UN-set goals, Bangladesh have to bring down the poverty rate at 29.4 per cent by 2015 from 58.8 per cent in 1991.
He said Bangladesh's progress in alleviating poverty has been widely praised.
"We will lay out to the international community how we have achieved this success and what we need to achieve is other goals of the UN-set MDGs for poverty alleviation."
The foreign ministry has prepared the report in cooperation with different ministries. Barbados, Cape Verde, Ethiopia and Ghana will make similar presentations.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon will inaugurate the conference.