Leaders of U.N. development organizations gathered in South Korea on Thursday as the world body seeks to establish a new set of development goals for the next 15 years.
Representatives from 11 U.N. agencies, including the chiefs of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, were among the more than 200 attendees at a high-level symposium of the 2015 U.N. Development Cooperation Forum in Songdo, west of Seoul.
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se was to deliver a speech at the opening ceremony of the symposium slated to run through Friday.
The meeting comes ahead of a U.N. development summit in September, where the global body is expected to adopt a post-2015 development agenda to succeed the U.N. Millennium Development Goals of 2001-2015.
Yun is scheduled to hold separate meetings with the U.N. leaders on the sidelines of the symposium. (Yonhap)
