David Cameron to chair UN committee overseeing development goals

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David Cameron to chair UN committee overseeing development goals

Invitation represents a coup for the prime minister who has stuck to the government’s commitment to increase overseas aidDavid Cameron has been asked by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to chair a new UN committee tasked with establishing a new set of UN millennium development goals to follow the present goals, which expire in 2015. The invitation, accepted by the prime minister, represents a political coup for Cameron, who has stuck to the government’s commitment to increase overseas aid to 0.7% of UK GDP, despite the recession.