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| from right; Chairman, Honeywell Group, Dr Oba Otudeko, Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Dr. Georg Kell, and Commissioner, Economic Affairs of the African Union, Dr Anthony Mothae Maruping, at the UN Global Compact Summit tagged: "Architects of a Better World" in New York, United States, at the weekend. |
Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko will today present the Abiye Safe Motherhood success story at a side event of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
According to relese signed by Mr Eni Akinsola, the chief press secretary, Gov Mimiko is to speak on the topic "Moving the MDGs to the next level: The Ondo State Experience" in an effort to share the lessons of the success story to leaders and opinion moulders across sectors involved
in the achievements of the MDGs.
He had at the weekend participated at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit tagged "Architects of a Better World" where he addressed a panel on the need for a new global financial architecture.
At the media panel anchored by Olanrewaju Akinola, Editor of This is Africa, a publication of the Financial Times, Mimiko said the real problem of Africa is a global trade and financial architecture skewed against Africa.
Mimiko said, "with democracy taking root in some states of Africa and policy consistency becoming the norm, a major obstacle to rapid development now is a global trade and financial architecture that makes Africa a destination of finished products from across the world with little premium placed on the products originating from Africa."
The UN Summit brings chief executives from the private sector together with leaders from civil society, Government and the United Nations.
Chaired by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Leaders Summit–Architects of a Better World – is to link the enduring, universal values of the United Nations with a new global architecture
for corporate sustainability.
The session to be addressed by Governor Mimiko is to focus on the Millennium Development Goals, post-MDGs and look at prospects for Africa.
