Washington: The US and UK on Wednesday agreed to work with emerging economies, including India, Brazil, China and Russia, to support creation of a new global partnership and engage them in poverty eradication.
This is part of their effort and commitment to work towards their common goal of eradication of poverty from the world, the US and Britain said in a joint fact sheet issued on the occasion of the state visit of British Prime Minister David Cameron to the White House.
"We remain strongly focused on reducing global poverty and recognize that progress can be accelerated by embracing new partnerships and new innovations," the document said.
This is the reason why Britain recently joined USAID "Saving Lives at Birth" Grand Challenge for Development, to identify and scale up transformative approaches that save the lives of mothers and newborns in rural areas of the developing world at the time of birth.
"More broadly, we are building on the substantial progress at Busan and elsewhere in engaging with emerging market countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China, and with the private sector, to support the creation of the new global partnership and engage these countries in poverty eradication," the fact sheet said.
The two countries, it said, continue to maintain their strong commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including co-hosting an annual MDG Countdown event at the UN General Assembly to showcase excellent results and progress towards each of the MDGs.
"We are actively participating in international and intergovernmental discussions on a post-2015 reaffirmation of the importance of ending world poverty and renewal of our international commitment to achieve this," it said.
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