UN General Assembly
2014

equality and the empowerment of women, dealing with the mortality of children under five years, reducing maternal mortality and promoting a sustainable environment, major efforts have ben undertaken. Still, those goals will most likely not be achieved, despite the implementation of the programme of recovery currently under way since my election in 2011. In drafting the new post-2015 agenda, we naturally need to maintain all of the unachieved MDGs and provide for measures to avoid a deterioration in areas where the goals have already been achieved. For example, the issue of the demographic dividend should be a priority on the agenda. The demographic dividend, the Assembly will recall, consists of both the demographic transition and inclusive economic growth. More specifically, the demographic dividend means, on the one hand, reducing maternal, infant and juvenile mortality and controlling birth and, on the other hand, providing for sustainable development with its three pillars: economic, social and environmental. The demographic transition is needed to strengthen sustained growth, which in turn should accelerate the demographic transition. I continue to believe that