High-level Event on MDGs this week

The High-level Event (HLE) is taking place on Thursday this week।

Programme

• 8:45 – 10:00 a.m.
  Opening Plenary Session (General Assembly Hall)
  Remarks by the UN Secretary-General
  Remarks by the President of the UN General Assembly
  Remarks by invited guest speakers
  
  
• 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
  Thematic Roundtables* (to be held in parallel)
  Roundtable I: Poverty and Hunger
  Roundtable II: Education and Health
  Roundtable III: Environmental Sustainability
  
  
• 3:00 – 5:30 pm
  Thematic Roundtables* (continued)
  
  
• 5:30 – 5:45 p.m.
  Closing Plenary Session
  Statement by the UN Secretary-General

The big question on everybody's mind is: "What will this event achieve?" The jostling for media visibility among competing interest groups advocating for different MDGs is just amazing. A look at the huge number of "partnership events" taking place on or before the HLE just demonstrates the lack of coherence rather than diversity.