UN General Assembly
2014

I would like to extend to the President, on behalf of the people and Government of Togo, as well as on my own behalf, our warmest congratulations on his election as President of the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session. I would also like to take this opportunity to reiterate to the Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, my country’s sincere congratulations on and encouragement for his efforts to enable our Organization to meet the challenges facing our world. By giving the sixty-ninth session of the General Assembly the theme “Delivering on and implementing a transformative post-2015 development agenda”, the President wished to remind Member States of their responsibility to spare no effort in defining, as we look ahead in the context of the post-2015 period, a development agenda commensurate with the challenges facing the world. Indeed, it is undeniable that defining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been beneficial to humankind. While not all of those goals will be achieved by all our States, our commitment to working together to attain them has enabled us to make