UN General Assembly
2012

welcome the decision adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union asking the Commission of the Union to develop a road map for the African Union for shared responsibility and global solidarity in combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Africa for the period of 2012 to 2015. A high-level coordinating meeting on the subject will take place tomorrow, 26 September 2012, at United Nations Headquarters. I call on the spirit of solidarity of developed countries and of countries of the South that are experiencing considerable economic expansion to set up, according to their historic responsibility and their abilities, opportunities to assist the efforts of African countries, as was agreed during the fourth Ministerial Conference of the Least Developed Countries, held in Istanbul, Turkey in May 2011, as well as at the Group of 20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, in June. The recommendations of those bodies reflect well our common ambition to transition of half of the least developed countries to the category of middle-income