Are Global Leaders Leading? Outcomes from the September Summits at the U.N.

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Days after world leaders wrapped up the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit, a high-level meeting on Sudan, and the opening of this year’s General Assembly, critical questions remain. What was achieved and where will the United Nations, its agencies and members states go from here?

On September 30, the Managing Global Insecurity Project at Brookings hosted senior U.N. officials Nicholas Haysom and Robert Orr for a discussion of the outcomes and implications of these high-level meetings. Haysom and Orr addressed what these meetings mean for the world’s most pressing challenges, for the future of the United Nations and for further international cooperation on vital global issues. Senior Fellow Bruce Jones, director of the Managing Global Insecurity project, joined the panel.

Senior Fellow Ted Piccone, deputy director for Foreign Policy at Brookings, provided introductory remarks and moderated the discussion. After the program, the speakers took audience questions.

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• Outcomes from the September Summits at the U.N.

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• Transcript (.pdf)

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• 20100930_un_mdg

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