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Article: 2005 World Summit.
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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Some 150 Heads of State and Government, the largest-ever assemblage of world leaders, gathered at UN Headquarters in New York from 14 to 16 September for the 2005 World Summit. The Summit had been originally conceived as a follow-up to the anti-poverty goals of the 2000 Millennium Summit. Then, in 2003, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the General Assembly that the United Nations had come to "a fork in the road," with new global threats and challenges facing it. Also high on his agenda was the "radical reform" of the United Nations, so he appointed a 16-member panel to evaluate the Organization's capacity to manage contemporary threats to international peace and ...