UN head says more needs to be done to stop corruption
BY MAURILIO SOTO
The News
MEXICO CITY – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that, to ensure that the Millennium Development Goals are met by their 2015 deadline, the world’s governments must take steps to generate more revenue and advance in the fight against corruption.
Ban’s comments were made at the first High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, held in Mexico City.
“As the 2015 deadline draws near, all of us must do more to deliver on our commitments,” he said. “We have made important progress. But we have not done enough.”
Ban said that he’s encouraged by the fact that aid-receiving nations are creating transparency and accountability mechanisms, but that more needs to be done in the fight against corruption and money laundering in order to ensure sustainable and inclusive development.
He added that the traditional donor-recipient dynamic has been changing in recent years, with increased cooperation among countries in the global south in recent years, which he said was another positive sign.
At the summit, President Enrique Peña Nieto said that this period of economic globalization should be followed by global solidarity.
Peña Nieto said that, as a show of greater global responsibility, Mexico will assume the responsibility of meeting its international obligations with a three-pronged plan of action, which includes institutionalizing the basic principles of cooperative effective development, expanding and improving the quality of international aid and promoting the adoption of a global initiative for inclusion.
Peña Nieto said the first part of the plan of action is central to Mexico’s post-2015 development initiative, adding that efforts to fight inequality should be doubled.
He added that Mexico, as well as all nations, must move to a new era of effective cooperation with the international community to transform society through technological and scientific exchange.
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