Africa: Helen Clark - Speech to the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament

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- Next month, world leaders will gather in this chamber to launch an ambitious new sustainable development agenda. It will build on progress made since the Millennium Declaration, and seek to reduce poverty and inequality, improve people's lives, and promote peace, security, good governance, and the rule of law.

- Many voices, including yours and those of your parliamentary colleagues, have helped shape the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and to re-imagine the ways in which national and international institutions will have to work if we are to attain them.

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