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More needs to be done to fight poverty, hunger: Annan

In his report to the UN General Assembly, Annan painted a mixed picture of the progress achieved so far in fighting global problems such as poverty and hunger.

While East Asia has made progress in reducing the proportion of its population that is malnourished or extremely poor, the number of hungry people in Africa actually rose by 27 million during the 1990s, Annan said.

He said the success showed that the vision set out in the Millennium Declaration was not "focused on horizons too remote for us to reach".

In the meeting in 2000 at the UN headquarters in New York, world leaders had agreed to an action plan that would in the next 15 years halve the number of starving people and those who live on less than one dollar a day as compared to the 1990s.

PTI

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