U.K. PM outlines agenda for post-2015 development as high-level meeting concludes in London

"This generation has a unique opportunity to eradicate extreme poverty, [U.K. Prime Minister] David Cameron said on Thursday as he outlined an agenda to follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expire in 2015," the Guardian reports. Cameron was speaking to reporters following the first substantive meeting of a high-level U.N. panel co-chaired by himself, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and tasked by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "to lay out a framework that will follow the MDGs," the newspaper notes. The co-chairs "all emphasized the importance of listening to civil society, the private sector and young people, in an attempt to achieve the widest possible consensus for the follow-up to the MDGs," the Guardian writes, adding, "The U.N. says a post-2015 framework will have at its core the continuing fight against poverty, climate change and sustainable development, while addressing inclusive growth, equality, peace and security, and human rights" (Tran, 11/1). "The panel will meet again in Monrovia and Jakarta next year" before providing a draft report to Ban, BBC News notes (Loyn, 11/1).