UCLG President Kadir Topbaş attented UN High Level Panel Meeting in London 2.11.2012

Established by the invitatio of UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon’, the second meeting of UN High Level Panel on Eminent Persons on Post 2015 Development Agenda took place in London on November 1, 2012. Chaired by the Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Mr. David Cameron, the panel adopted the general objectives and discussed basic concerns. Mr.David Cameron said ‘‘The actions to eradicate the poverty should be defined and necessary steps should be taken to update the Millenium Development Goals’’.

UCLG President Dr. Kadir Topbaş made an intervention in the session on ‘‘Human Development’’ saying that being in close contacts with citizens, local governments carried out the most influential work to realize the Millennium Development Goals and contributed to global development thanks to their quick responses on sharing their experiences with other local governments. He also added: ‘‘Let’s be realistic. Poverty should be addressed not only in one dimension such as food safety, but in a multi dimensional way. In this context while creating the vision of the panel, eradicating the poverty should be considered as the main theme, and topics to support the main theme such as employment, justice, equality and sustainable development should be dealt as side themes’’. UCLG-MEWA Secretary General Mehmet Duman also attended the panel meeting.

 HIGH LEVEL PANEL MEMBERS WHO ATTENDED THE MEETING:

CO-CHAIRS

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia
Co-Chair

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
Co-Chair

David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Co-Chair

MEMBERS

Fulbert Gero Amoussouga (Benin)

Vanessa Petrelli Corrêa (Brazil)

Yingfan Wang (China)

Maria Angela Holguin (Colombia)

Gisela Alonso (Cuba)

Jean-Michel Severino (France)

Horst Kohler (Germany)

Naoto Kan (Japan)

Queen Rania of Jordan (Jordan)

Betty Maina (Kenya)

Abhijit Banerjee (India)

Andris Piebalgs (Latvia)

Patricia Espinosa (Mexico)

Paul Polman (Netherlands)

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Nigeria)

Elvira Nabiullina (Russian Federation)

Graça Machel (South Africa)

Sung-Hwan Kim (Republic of Korea)

Gunilla Carlsson (Sweden)

Emilia Pires (Timor-Leste)

Kadir Topbaş (Turkey)

John Podesta (United States)

Tawakel Karman (Yemen)

Amina J. Mohammed (ex officio)