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The United Nations and its diplomatic partners in the search for peace in the Middle East today reaffirmed their determination to provide maximum support to the Israelis and the Palestinians as they resume talks aimed at reaching a comprehensive peace.

As the United Nations General Assembly continues its annual high-level segment, a host of African leaders stressed today that while the continent’s progress is beyond doubt, consolidating social and economic gains requires international, regional and local approaches that better protect African livelihoods and ensure that agreed development targets can be achieved.

Leaders of Caribbean island States addressing the United Nations General Assembly today outlined progress made at eradicating poverty and urged greater support from the international community to meet the universally accepted goals, particularly those on health and climate change.

China will firmly promote global governance reform with the United Nations at its core, the country’s Foreign Minister today told the General Assembly, while also stressing Beijing’s commitment to play an active role in international diplomacy and be a voice on behalf of developing countries.

Insisting that the name a country and people choose is “our fundamental individual and collective right,” the Prime Minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, today called on the United Nations to become more directly involved in the dispute with Greece over his country’s name.

In the last four and a half years, 50 million people have joined the ranks of the middle class while the average gross domestic product (GDP) rate has remained at 6.4 per cent, Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh told the General Assembly today.

The post-2015 development agenda must heavily focus on providing opportunities and protecting the rights of vulnerable populations including women, children and persons with disabilities, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of San Marino, Pasquale Valentini told the United Nations General Assembly today.

Progress on the universally accepted global targets is uneven and there is a lot of unfinished business, the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic today said, reiterating his Government’s commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Today at the high-level debate of the General Assembly, officials of several industrialized countries maintained that international trade can help bring about sustainable development, as the United Nations begins to lay the groundwork for a sustainability agenda for the period after 2015.

Citing his own country’s example in moving from a war-ravaged, hunger-stricken State to becoming a leading rice exporter, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung of Viet Nam today called on the United Nations to use a "One for All and All for One" strategy in developing a long-term blueprint for sustainable development.