»UN Chief Ban Ki-moon highlighted yesterday the urgency of fighting global hunger in a report, noting that in 2009, over one billion people were struggling in hunger, setting a new record, Xinhua reported.

»The report, entitled Keeping the Promises: a forward-looking review to promote an agreed action agenda to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, was submitted to the 192-nation General Assembly yesterday, and would serve as a basis for Government deliberations on an action-oriented outcome document for the 20-22 September Summit on the MDGs.

»Launched in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals are meant to help raise the human development index in countries and by extension, human security, peace and stability in the world. The program specifically identifies and targets for eradication, extreme poverty and hunger.